Bush and Cheney need a shiny new toy

Now that even Henry Kissinger has thrown in the towel on Iraq, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney need a shiny new bauble to pursue. It looks like that bauble is going to be Iran. And the script so far is exactly the same:

A classifed draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter has said.

Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for the November 27 issue of the magazine The New Yorker released in advance, reported on whether the administration of Republican President George W. Bush was more, or less, inclined to attack Iran after Democrats won control of Congress last week.

A month before the November 7 legislative elections, Hersh wrote, Vice President Dick Cheney attended a national-security discussion that touched on the impact of Democratic victory in both chambers on Iran policy.

"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," Hersh wrote, citing a source familiar with the discussion.

Cheney said the White House would circumvent any legislative restrictions "and thus stop Congress from getting in its way," he said.

Same shit, different day. Bush and Cheney lie to the American people about, trying to frighten them into believing that the country in question is ready to blow us to smithereens. The IAEA says "Not so fast," and Cheney says, "Fuck you -- we want this war and we're going to have it. It's our due."

This isn't even the neocons anymore. Perle and Adelman and the rest of them are ready to throw the entire Administration under the bus. Rummy has been fired. So what's operative here? I'm thinking perhaps Cheney made a deal with Bush: You can fire Rummy, but I get my war with Iran.

Have you ever seen a being that can walk around in daylight have this level of thirst for human blood?