In the run-up to the midterm elections, Vice President Dick Cheney's recent remarks about U.S. national security policy once again point out the Bush administration's haughtiness and disdain for checks on executive power. No matter what the outcome of the elections, U.S. policy in Iraq will go "full steam ahead," according to Cheney. Apparently, U.S. public opinion on the most important issue of this administration's tenure doesn't count. Cheney is arrogant because he knows the truth about these elections. -This is what he knows: The candidates who "win" do so because Big Money and the government behind the Government already have created the election results that they want and they will tailor the exit polls correspondingly as well. The campaign is in itself a major propaganda effort aimed at persuading the voters that their votes count. It is not important at all what they vote for. The important thing for the government behind the Government is that the voters be present at Election Day. The voters have nothing to do with the particular result. They just have to be present at Election Day and go through the motions of "voting" in order for the charade to go on. The "election results" HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN ADVANCE, WILL BE ELECTRONICALLY PUMPED INTO THE VOTING SYSTEMS AND WILL BE PRONOUNCED AS "THE VOTE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE". People will believe this. -But the true vote of the people WILL NEVER BE KNOWN.