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3/25/08

PBS Frontline's 2-night Bush's War revelations
(last night and tonight) all of the manipulated
run-up: a staggering revelation of total manipulation
and dishonesty by Cheney - specifically.

Bush gets credit, but Cheney's the evil brain.
Not a shred of truth or evidence by either party.
Full-court Administration manipulation.
No one supporting the war, pre-Powell UN's
Sell-Job gets a pass. No one.
Everybody knew and, were compliant.
Cheney's unprecedented manipulation of the CIA,
the State Department, his total influence over Bush
and Blaire, with his best bud and confidant and
coconspirator Rumsfeld - and Wolfowitz, phew.
It was, and is, a total lie.
Whenever we hear the phrase, "We're staying
for National Security Interests is Cheney-speak
for Oil. Period.

No idea what Cheney's 'lie' compares to historically.
But in our US History? Nothing compares.

Ironically, a war-commentator said yesterday,
"the only party benefiting from this mess - is Iran."

Locally:

A Monday LATimes 'editorial' whacks the
Guv for terminating Shriver and Clint, while
fully endorsing the defeat of TCA's 241-extension:

"the toll road project is dead, and that's enough
to make the California public's day."

Go LATimes!

In other GOOD local eco-news: LATimes Thurs-20th:
a plan to protect 69 wildlife corridors / routes from
Santa Barbara to the Mexican border including
portions of OC's Cleveland National Forest has
been announced. Goal: have habitat corridors
enjoy same status as national parks and forests.

Tidbits: Arnie's Economy (or: Oh why can't my
government run more like a business? In OC it
does - that's why we went bankrupt in 94).
CA's economy: over $1.5 Trillion annually, ranks
8th on the planet (among the 195 other nations).
Arnie says: "my first minute in office I rescinded
the car tax = $6 Billion a year, amounts now to
around $20 Billion (and why the state's budget
is all red ink) - as Guv runs up twice that amount
in accumulated budget deficits including $15 Billion
in direct borrowing from Wall St.

Is that like TCA borrowing from its Security investments:
money accumulated from Bonds sales, then adding-in
development fees (from OC homes sales), then using all
of that to pay down toll road debt - BUT, when home sales
tank, and Wall St implodes, and gas prices soar so freak'n
high finally no one can afford any toll - is that like Arnie's
Economy, or Bush's War economy? Take your pick.

Smile, summer's almost here -

jc