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Wow, even the conservatives are upset. Here's an article by Gregory Cochran in The American Conservative online magazine that's worth reading -- elucidating the false history the Bushies have created to justify events...
From the article: "When tired or stressed, they (members of the Bush administration) refer to the history that they lived and learned in school. But their briefing books recount an alternate history in which Iraq in 2002 was not a poor and backward country but the coming threat, as our Germany was in 1938. A history in which America, after the Revolution, was a flaming cesspool like Iraq today, a world in which Lincoln executed unruly legislators. One in which World War II dragged on long after the indecisive Battle of Midway. One in which our occupation of Germany was plagued by guerrilla warfare. One in which we’ve been fighting World War IV with Iran and Syria for 25 years, as Jim Woolsey has repeatedly said. One in which a hostile Islamic Caliphate has bothered to go through the formality of coming into existence."
And this screed is found in a magazine founded by Pat Buchanan... We do indeed live in a science fictional world.
(gakked from Constance Ash, who gakked it from a friend's newgroup... I've also seen it linked elsewhere here and there...)
From the article: "When tired or stressed, they (members of the Bush administration) refer to the history that they lived and learned in school. But their briefing books recount an alternate history in which Iraq in 2002 was not a poor and backward country but the coming threat, as our Germany was in 1938. A history in which America, after the Revolution, was a flaming cesspool like Iraq today, a world in which Lincoln executed unruly legislators. One in which World War II dragged on long after the indecisive Battle of Midway. One in which our occupation of Germany was plagued by guerrilla warfare. One in which we’ve been fighting World War IV with Iran and Syria for 25 years, as Jim Woolsey has repeatedly said. One in which a hostile Islamic Caliphate has bothered to go through the formality of coming into existence."
And this screed is found in a magazine founded by Pat Buchanan... We do indeed live in a science fictional world.
(gakked from Constance Ash, who gakked it from a friend's newgroup... I've also seen it linked elsewhere here and there...)