VP Bush not Toeing the Cheney Line

CNN.com - Iraq insurgency in 'last throes,' Cheney says - May 31, 2005

Then:

"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time,' Cheney said. '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."

Yahoo News: Bush: U.S. to Stay in Iraq Despite Deaths

Now:

"We still have deaths. We still have suicide car bombs," he said. "But the numbers we see indicate (the insurgents) can't generate the same tempo, and I think that's because we've had some degree of effect in interdicting these forces."