Comments on: Heh Indeedy’s Historical Revisionism

By: Lois Lane

Lois Lane — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:36:08 +0000

from an ABC interview Busg did with Diane Sawyer. I think we know whos trying to rewrite history.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Yeah. Look, what, what we based our evidence on was a very sound national intelligence estimate.

DIANE SAWYER: (Off Camera) Nothing should have been more precise?

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I, I made my decision based upon enough intelligence to tell me that this country was threatened with Saddam Hussein in power.

Talk about hyperbole. The US in danger from Saddam. I wonder if he was dring that day.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:20:31 +0000

Hello,

It is interesting to watch Bush use the term revisionism AGAIN to attack war critics. There’s something about the word “revisionism” that suggests problematics to many people. I would guess this is because Holocaust denier historians use the term to describe themselves (inaccurately, by the way). Historical revisionism is a skeptical approach to accepted historical views. Historical revisionism may not necessarily be a theory in itself (as is Marxist historical theory, or Whig historical theory). Historical revisionism is just another look at a thing. Usually revisionists poke and prod to show how certain accepted ideas don’t hold up well when examined closely.

Pardon the following.
I just have to…

Rarely is the question asked, is our [president] learning?

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:34:28 +0000

I had no idea I was a “scoundrel” for opposing this war of choice started by these crazy fundamentalists and criminals we call the Bush administration.

By: feckless

feckless — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:51:17 +0000

The war didn’t start with the resolution to disarm, it started when W pulled the inspectors. We had bad intelligence? Well W and W alone made the decision to stop gathering intelligence and attack. Allowing Republicans to frame the debate around the resolution is playing into their hands. The final decision to go to war was made by Bush, there are no Democratic quotes supporting pulling the inspectors. The administration would have us believe invasion was the only way they could have found out they were wrong on WMD’s, that is a historical revisionism of horrible implications.

PULLING THE INSPECTORS STARTED THE WAR.

By: jonkopp@glasscity.net

jonkopp@glasscity.net — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:42:45 +0000

I quit debating formally in college because too many people seemed to prize ‘winning’ debates rather than improving our understanding of the many valid viewpoints in public policy.

The result of this twisted commitment to victory at any cost was a plethora of what we called ’squirrel’ cases: arguments that circled the main topic without ever really coming to grips with the conflict of values inherent in any really useful debate subject.

The esssence of this strategy is sheer rhetorical sophistry, consisting of many tricks and tactics that counterfeit logic and substitute fallacy for reasoning.

The Bush administration is committed to the same kind of ‘victory’. Rather than admit the least measure of error, Bush and his shop of gnomish rhetoricians persist in shoveling mounds of bullshit and evasion out the front door of the White House, as if they will salvage something from this trainwreck of a regime if they just avoid saying ‘we were dishonest and we apologize to America.’

They are a despicable bunch of miserable, tiny, hollow people. I cannot call them ‘men’ in any sense of the word. History will not be kind to Bush or his enablers.

By: Leader Of The Noble Cause

Leader Of The Noble Cause — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:07:34 +0000

now if you could find and date the quote of Bush saying He’s a ‘War President’ then correcting himself and adding ‘Well, I will be’ or something to that effect.

By: Sarcastro

Sarcastro — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:18:58 +0000

Oh, wait, should that have been “blind adoration”?

Yes, “Blind adoration of one’s government (if you voted for it)”.

By: eRobin

eRobin — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:07:27 +0000

Great job remembering that Kerry quote. It should be noted that his position reflected that of the majority of Americans polled at that time, who were also getting the same bullshit information. Poll info is here . Scroll down to G.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 01:33:41 +0000

“Medea Benjamin types?” I doubt Glenn Reynolds even knows who Medea Benjamin is.
I think he’s refering to those elected Democrats – the vast majority – who supported the war because they either have no moral compass or, more likely, wished to appear “tough” to avoid being attacked by cocksmokers like Glenn Reynolds. I agree these people are bad patriots. Supporting the war out of cowardice would constitute treason in my eyes. But so would doing so from a secret belief in American infallability and divine right – an effront to our most basic beliefs as a Republic – and those, like Glenn, who supported the war but should have known better are guilty of this crime.

By: jim c

jim c — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:19:53 +0000

“I think it starts with not uttering falsehoods that damage the country in time of war.”

I think it starts with not uttering falsehoods that lead the country into war.