"What we've seen is a serious effort by them to foment civil war, but I don't think they've been successful," said VP Dick Cheney this morning on CBS's "Face the Nation."

This from the same guy who assured us that Iraq possessed WMD, that Iraq had confirmed links to 9/11, that the war would only last a matter of weeks, that we would be greeted as liberators, that the invasion of Iraq would pay for itself with Iraq's own oil revenue, who also said over a year ago the insurgency was in its last throes, and someone who personally has over $8 million of stock in a company that receives absolute no-bid contracts for reconstruction work in Iraq.

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