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"The reality on the ground [in Iraq] is, we’ve made major progress.” -- US Vice President Dick Cheney, late January 2007.

“The intelligence community judges that the term ‘civil war’ does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict in Iraq, which includes extensive Shia-on-Shia violence, Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent attacks on coalition forces, and widespread criminally motivated violence" -- US National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, a consensus document of the 16 agencies that make up the intelligence community, published 2 February 2007.