Niman: The Bush Assault on Reality

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http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Niman/BAoReal.shtml

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Shortly after the invasion began, George W. Bush told UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the fundamental question was, “Did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program?” The answer, according to Bush, was “Absolutely,” He went on to explain that “we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power.”

The problem with this contention is that it is blatantly false. The inspectors were in Iraq and working. This was a well documented and unquestionable fact. They only fled the country, for their own safety, after the Bush administration announced its intention to invade. Nobody has challenged this chronology. Not coincidentally, the previous wave of UN inspectors were also forced out of the country not by the Iraqis, but by the threat of the Clinton administration’s ensuing bombardment of Iraq.


The Washington Post Scrubbing History Clean


Bush’s statements flew in the face of this obvious reality. And like Orwell ’s fictive Big Brother, Bush needed help scrubbing history clean of a few embarrassing little facts. Orwell created the character Winston, who “crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.” George W. Bush doesn’t have a flaming “memory hole” to incinerate the past – but he has The Washington Post. In an ensuing story about the controversy surrounding Bush’s citing false information before the invasion, The Post gave air to Bush’s contention that he gave Saddam “a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn’t allow them in.” The Post failed to point out that the inspectors were in fact already “in.”

This is revisionist history. Interestingly enough, however, the charge of historical revisionism came not from Bush’s critics, but from Bush himself, in what seems like a full frontal charge against his ultimate enemy – reality. On June 16th, Bush told a group of New Jersey business leaders that “revisionist historians” were falsely alleging that the US never had proof of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. This would be the same proof that history in fact has proven we never had.

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[izzie]

1. It is fun to re-write History. AND

Same group re-wrote the Bible. Made JC the God of War and it has been easy to get all those so-called Christians to go along with that. And the nice part is you can take your gun to church in Texas.