I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time, ... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. (Dick Cheney)

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time, ... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

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