I decided to take some time out and play "matchmaker"...

Here's what I've come up with.

9/11 ("The New Pearl Harbor")=JFK & Gulf of Tonkin

War on Terror=Cold War

Terrorists=Communists

Iraq=Vietnam

Wellstone=RFK

Bush/Treasongate=Nixon/Watergate
Bush=Nixon
Cheney=Agnew
Rice=Kissinger
Card=Haig
Rove & Hadley=Haldeman & Ehrlichman
Libby=Liddy
Hannah=McCord
Gonzales=Mitchell
McClellan=Ziegler
Tenet=Helms
Goss=Schlesinger
Frederick Black (Fired Abramoff Prosecutor)=Archibald Cox
Patrick Fitzgerald=Leon Jaworski
Trent Lott=Howard Baker
John Conyers=Sam Ervin
WHIG=CREEP
Missing Plame Emails=18-minute gap erasure in Watergate tape
New Hampshire Phone Jamming=Third Rate Burglary
Prostitutes at the Watergate=Burglars at the Watergate
Russell Tice=John Dean
Syria, Fallujah & Haditha=Cambodia, Laos & My Lai
The Blogosphere=Woodward and Bernstein

Also, Iran-Contra/BCCI similarities:

Abramoff=Ollie North

Enron=BCCI

Your thoughts are welcome.

Barbara Jordan

Thanks.

Cheney=Cheney
Rumsfeld=Rumsfeld

Here are my favorites:

WHIG=CREEP: Much underrated in the media, wait the media is part of WHIG. Nevertheless, this is critical. This was the organizing principal, the coordination mechanism run by fools, obeyed by quislings.

New Hampshire Phone Jamming=Third Rate Burglary: Haley Barbour, Gov, MS...he was RNC boss when this little affair occurred. That's a nasty connection but clear as can be.

Trent Lott=Howard Baker: Now, you're saying, Trent Lott, no way. Well Lott has a memory and a score sheet. He's behind, way behind. Humiliated by *, he will gladly get even. Actually he has to do that, more important than ideology.

Don't agree but interesting question raised:

Goss=Schlesinger: Goss is a dis articulate bumbler at the level he's trying to play at. Schlesinger is a composed, in control, genius. I don't see Goss equaling James Schlesinger. But then, who is James Schlesinger in this scenario. There has to be one...ah ha...you left out Comey

Comey=Schlesinger (for $800) You gotta believe...and I do. Comey appoints Fitz and give him a contract that looks like it's for life. How the heck did that...damn, there goes the IL Republican Party. Comey did the cake walk out of the administration into a very nice corporate job. Probability, high that this is a match.

Now here's one free:

Dixie Chicks=Sister Soulja (ok, wrong metaphor but whatever...)

Great stuff.

K&R

I had matched Goss with Schlesinger because I read an article somewhere that mentioned Nixon fired his CIA Director Helms and replaced him with Schlesinger the same way Bush fired Tenet and replaced him with Goss.

I'll also add these:

William Jefferson=Daniel Ellsberg
Judge Walton=Judge Sirica
The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building=Sibel Edmonds FBI Building is what I hope it is thirty years from now.

would be explosive. Sirica was, as we recall, a "law & order" Republican appointed DC Federal Judge. Real nuts and bolts guy. He just got fed up with the B.S. for Nixon and made rulings that really broke the case. Keep hope alive!

otherwise I'm with you on this. It was LBJ with the Gulf of Tonkin, not JFK. The incident happened in August 1964.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident

ed. I guess I should say the incident "didn't" happen in 1964, but the resolution did.

Yes, I knew the Gulf of Tonkin happened under LBJ. I was talking about the JFK assassination and Gulf of Tonkin as being parralel events to 9/11.

put his signature on that...

I figured since you were so correct on everything else, it must have been an oversight or my misinterpretation - obviously the latter. You have drawn some very striking parallels.

But basically, I was referring to how the government simply let Detroit die in the 1960s as it did with New Orleans after Katrina.