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June 29, 2005 (by Eric)

Sooooooooooo. I watched the "president's" speech last night, the one that was supposed to pull the federal government out of the tailspin that is the Iraq war and make us all feel really good. What a concept: we're in Iraq promoting peace. I really wonder, does he think that people are such idiots that he can say such a thing? (Don't worry, I know that lots of other people write these speeches.) Or, a more horrifying question: are people such idiots that they do believe such a thing?

Imagine, you set off a bomb in your neighbor's house.

"I was promoting peace between my neighbors, officer."

Right.

"Well, he looked at me funny. I thought he was gonna do it to me first!"

Then we learned that American servicemen in Iraq are fighting for OUR freedom. Mine and yours. He rang that freedom bell as if we didn't "stay the course" that the Iraqis would me wading over the Rio Grande tomrrow.

And he told us, we are "laying the foundation for peace for our children and grandchildren." What he means is, our grandchildren and their grandchildren will be paying for his private Halliburton and Carlyle Group war their entire lives.

So this was the answer to the Downing Street Memo, which you've been reading about here, in which British officials were freaking about how the war would be illegal and get nowhere, but that it had to be justified somehow because the US was going to use British bases anyway.

The fraud marches on: Bush made SIX separate references to the Sept. 11 attacks in his speech about the Iraq war, once again attempting to connect Saddam Hussein to something everyone who can read above an 8th grade level knows he had nothing to do with. I guess he couldn't mention the weapons of mass destruction, could he?

But they still have it posted on the White House web page. I really suggest you read this. It's short and obscenely false.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect3.html

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As for astrology, the Moon is in feisty Aries, having just finished a conjunction to Mars overnight, and now applying in a sextile to Neptune. The Venus-Mercury conjunction continues through Leo. We're on a little fire roll, before the week mellows out and wraps up with the Taurus Moon.

Still working on the details...and checking out the charts for both Comet Tempel 1 and this weekend's Live 8 concerts.

Catch you soon.

e