Letters to the Editor
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it's the money stupid
America's demonisation of Iran is a sham.
The US way of doing things is capitalism on steroids. The US economy (and plenty of others now) is lead by financiers and debt.
War is the perfect way for financiers to get rich as governments print bonds and borrow money from the world's financiers, generating an awful lot of business in the process.
Cheney won't talk to Iran because that would stand in the way of using war as an economic tool, also they keep threatening to undermine the dollar by redenominating their sales in Euros.
A country as vast and as powerful as the US cannot reasonably be at the whim of a maniac like Cheney who says "we don't talk to evil", he is backed up by plenty of nice business men in suits who say "say you don't talk to evil, but in the background carry out the plan to eliminate the troublesome Iranians as we have already discussed"
I mean, even if Cheney is so ethical that he cannot bring himself to negotiate with the Iranians, surely the real power-brokers in the country would talk him round if they thought that his policy was against the interests of the USA. They haven't
it's the intelligence services who cut his legs from under him by refusing to have Iraq redux.
The GOP have been demonising one enemy after another for the last 100 years (at least) as a way to not deal with domsetic issues. They love a good world crisis and war so that the US government doesn't have to have any useful plan or view on how to conduct home affairs. They tell you another story.
The Bush 2000 election was the last-ditch effort by the GOP to realign the world to their view. Then you get 9/11 then they fit up the intelligence services twice (they didn't see it coming, they sold us a pup on Iraq)
The intelligence services believe that Cheney and his 'handlers' are maniacs and that their mistaken world-view is a menace to the US, they have finally had enough. The NIE was their answer.