hold on to that influence and advance the idea of bombing iran, liz cheney at the state department was in 2006 appointed to head up a secretive group called the iran/syria policy and operations group which was widely seen as basically the starter war with iran planning cell inside the state department. it was a secretive group, the most information that was ever published about it, was after it had quietly been shut down, even though there had been no contemporaneous announcement about it being shut down at all. the bush administration and the state department didn't want to talk about it until it was gone. liz cheney's iran syria policy and operations group existed for a year, and then they did away with it, not only did they not get the war they wanted with iran, they got pretty publicly and embarrassingly disowned by the bush administration, the bush administration made a half serious effort at trying to make