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Thursday, July 17, 2003

Revisionist history

Just in case you didn't see this . . .
Defending the broader decision to go to war with Iraq, the president said the decision was made after he gave Saddam Hussein "a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in."

The president's assertion that the war began because Iraq did not admit inspectors appeared to contradict the events leading up to war this spring: Hussein had, in fact, admitted the inspectors and Bush had opposed extending their work because he did not believe them effective.

That's a nice way of putting it. After all the screaming about "revisionist historians" trying to rewrite what happened during the attack on Iraq, Bush is doing the same damn thing. Trying to muddy the waters so no one can see clearly what actually happened. It's a clever trick - taking advantage of the public's collective short-term memory. But it's more lies, more deceit, more falsehoods. And we shouldn't let ourselves fall for it.

posted by chris at 5:22 PM
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