Life-Cycle

Compare and contrast.

The story so far ..

	Weapons of Mass Destruction IRAQ	Weapons of Financial Deception ENRON
Pretense	Energy manipulation	Energy manipulation
Think Tanks	Project of the New American Century (Perle, et al)	Tech Central Station (Glassman, et al)
Willing Partner	Great Britain	Great Britain (wrote the books on energy deregulation)
Incubator	Post 9-11 frenzy	Dot-com boom frenzy
Fortunes	Energy bonanza	Energy on paper
Windfall Racketeering	Cronyism, Kickbacks, Cost-overruns	Creative bookkeeping, Profit inflation, Subsidiary partnerships
Worker Bees	Soldiers	Office drones
Investors	Patriots, military families	Retirees, pensioners
Leadership	Support the troops, democracy takes time	Stocks are long term, wait till next quarter
Deception	Inflated press reports	Inflated stock price
Teflon Figurehead	George Bush	Ken Lay
Tipping Point	No WMD's	No real profits
Downfall	Angry voters	Angry stockholders
Rallying Cry	You're either for us or against us	Your stock options are dependent on our success
Slippery slope	Morale plummets	Stock price plummets
Framing the Issue	"Unpatriotic!"	"Anti-business!"
Tricked Early Adopters	John Kerry	Californians, Paul Krugman
Coverup	Classifying/Redacting	Shredding
Misdirection	Valerie Plame	Martha Stewart
Pure Evil	Torture	Enron Tapes
Reputation Gone	N.Y. Times	Arthur Andersen
Share the blame	Beltway journalists, SCLM	Stock analysts
Pocketbook	Taxpayers	Taxpayers
Signs of "Vinnie the Chin"	The reporter started with,"Sir, in regard to...", to which Bush responded, "Who are you talking to?"	Skilling was taken to a hospital after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI agents
Final Verdict	???	???