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Vice President Commemorates Five Years in Iraq, Insists U.S. Economy Not in Recession

Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney offered a positive assessment of the current situation and called last year's troop surge a "major success." "On the security front, I think there's a general consensus that we've made major progress, that the surge has worked. That's been a major success," Cheney told ABC News' Martha Raddatz during an exclusive interview in Oman. Watch "World News with Charles Gibson" tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET for the full report. ... Full Story
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