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Sometimes you wonder what planet Vice President Dick Cheney is living on. Last month, speaking of the war in Iraq, Cheney told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a prickly interview: "(The) bottom line is that we've had enormous successes, and we will continue to have enormous successes. It is hard. It is difficult." Anyone keeping up with the daily news from Baghdad knows that few people in the last few months -- especially those in the military -- are bragging about big successes to quell the violence in Iraq. Even within the White House, Cheney seems like a man lost in...

DETROIT (Feb. 4, 2006) -- Troy Aikman made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame's biggest class in years. The guy he threw to -- Michael Irvin -- will have to wait once again. Reggie White, Warren Moon, Harry Carson, John Madden and Rayfield Wright also were elected. Not since 2001 had the maximum number of candidates been chosen