ABOUT THOSE INSURGENTS. "The number of roadside bombs planted in Iraq rose in July to the highest monthly total of the war," reports The New York Times, "offering more evidence that the anti-American insurgency has continued to strengthen despite the killing of the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi." Previous expert commentary on the insurgency:
"There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on. We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation." President George W. Bush, July 2, 2003.
"Howard Dean has climbed into his own spider hole of denial if he believes that the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer." Senator Joe Lieberman, December 15, 2003.
"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." Vice President Dick Cheney, June 20, 2005.
--Matthew Yglesias
