>
>Cheney said the weekend before the election that even if
>the Reps lose, the admin will proceed with its war plans. Maybe that
>was just bluster. But if they think they can keep doing what they
>want having lost both houses of Congress by something like 8 points
>in the popular vote, what could "we" do to stop them?
>
>Doug
Here's the first paragraph from a new Seymour Hersh article:
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/061127fa_fact
>A month before the November elections,
>Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a
>national-security discussion at the Executive
>Office Building. The talk took a political turn:
>what if the Democrats won both the Senate and
>the House? How would that affect policy toward
>Iran, which is believed to be on the verge of
>becoming a nuclear power? At that point,
>according to someone familiar with the
>discussion, Cheney began reminiscing about his
>job as a lineman, in the early nineteen-sixties,
>for a power company in Wyoming. Copper wire was
>expensive, and the linemen were instructed to
>return all unused pieces three feet or longer.
>No one wanted to deal with the paperwork that
>resulted, Cheney said, so he and his colleagues
>found a solution: putting “shorteners” on the
>wirethat is, cutting it into short pieces and
>tossing the leftovers at the end of the workday.
>If the Democrats won on November 7th, the
>Vice-President said, that victory would not stop
>the Administration from pursuing a military
>option with Iran. The White House would put
>“shorteners” on any legislative restrictions,
>Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.