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Monday, November 14, 2005

bush vs revisionism

Now Bush is all angry at people who claim he said things about "weapons of mass destruction", or something, before the Iraq war began. According to him, these opponents of his are trying to "rewrite history".

I was thinking of taking a bunch of time to find all kinds of quotes where Bush says one thing and then contradicts it years or minutes later, but I think we've all seen enough of that. Instead, I will comment on the headline of the article I just linked to: "Bush slams Iraq war 'revisionism'". It's fairly common to use the word "slam" like that in a headline, but come on: did Bush really just "slam" revisionism? Did he pick up revisionism, turn it upside-down, and hurl it to the mat?

We report, you decide. Leave us a comment.

Update: David Corn successfully picks apart the speech so that I don't have to: Bush Rewrites History To Criticize His Antiwar Critics