Steve Clemons in The Washington Note reports on how Cheney is trying to push is policy to be in a war with Iran. "It is not that Cheney wants to bomb Iran and Bush doesn't, it is that Cheney is saying that Bush is making a mistake and thus needs to have the choices before him narrowed." It's pretty scary. "This White House official has stated to several Washington insiders that Cheney is planning to deploy an "end run strategy" around the President if he and his team lose the policy argument."
Joe Klein confirms some this. The Joints chiefs oppose attacking Iran "Because our intelligence inside Iran is very sketchy. There was no way to be sure that we could take out all of Iran's nuclear facilities. Furthermore, the Chiefs warned, the Iranian response in Iraq and, quite possibly, in terrorist attacks on the U.S. could be devastating. Bush apparently took this advice to heart and went to Plan B--a covert destabilization campaign reported earlier this week by ABC News. If Clemons is right, and I'm pretty sure he is, Cheney is still pushing Plan A."
Meanwhile, Senators Harry Reid (D-NV, Carl Levin (D-MI), Joe Biden (D-DE) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) write to President Bush asking for a report on his Iran policy. "As you know, Section 1213 of the fiscal year 2007 Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 109-364) requires you to provide Congress with an unclassified and classified report on your policy objectives and strategy regarding Iran."
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