Iraq insurgency could last a decade,admits Rumsfeld, The Official Man of a Thousand Cool Hand Gestures

"The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, yesterday warned that the insurgency in Iraq could go on for at least a decade and confirmed that the army had been in contact with some of its leaders in an attempt to quell the violence.

He spoke after insurgents launched coordinated suicide bomb attacks which killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens more in the northern city of Mosul.

Mr Rumsfeld said that Iraqis, not US troops, would eventually bring an end to attacks that have killed thousands of civilians and 1,730 American soldiers.

His downbeat assessment, during a television interview, was in stark contrast to a claim at the end of May by the vice presiden, Dick Cheney, that the insurgency was 'in its last throes'." (more 'duh' at link)

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Someone at the White House needs to send out that memo on 'getting stories straight'.
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