WHOM should WE believe?

Rummy says that defeating the insurgency may take as long as twelve years.

AND

Our Vice President had this to say:

But last month, Vice President Dick Cheney broke from the administration's "message discipline" and declared that the insurgency was in its "last throes." The White House has been paying a price ever since.

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Seems Cheney's remarks contradict both the President and Rumsfeld's assessment of the war.

I have just one question.

Does this mean that the last throes of the insurgency will last twelve years?

In Peace,
BlueAngel