FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney poses with U.S. soldiers at the Taji Air Base in Iraq December 18, 2005. Cheney visited Iraq on Sunday for the first time since the 2003 invasion, as hardline leaders from both sides of the country’s sectarian divide renewed calls for American troops to go home. Cheney, a chief architect of the war to oust Saddam Hussein, met Iraq’s prime minister and president during his 8-hour visit, and hailed last Thursday’s election as “tremendous”. REUTERS/Lawrence Jackson/Pool)/File Photo