I am amazed that anyone actually believes that, having systematically put in place the mechanisms for a dictatorship, Cheney et al. plan to simply hand all that over to someone else.

Does anyone really believe that there won't be another convenient 9/11, followed by martial law, canceled (or mock) elections, permanently suspended civil liberties, mass detentions, and the glove off the dictatorship for all to see....and fear?

Cheney should be placed in an isolation chamber for the indefinite future. Otherwise, it's all over, folks.