In five years, it's not unlikely that U.S. Special Operations forces will be working with Sunnis in western Iraq against a Shiite-dominated pro-Iranian government that controls much of the country.

So says Middle East expert Frank Anderson who worked for the CIA from 1968 until 1995. He also says:

There is no prospect under which we will depart from Iraq in better circumstances than we entered. It's probable that every month we stay there our position will be worse than it would have been if we had left the month before.

Dick Cheney says that things in Iraq are going "remarkably well." Is he an idiot or is he lying? You decide.