[lbo-talk] bush on revisionist history

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Wed Jun 18 09:43:18 PDT 2003


i'm really surprised i haven't seen a post to this list on the "revisionist history (thing)". apologies if i missed it, but is this not truly appalling?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/17/bush.iraq/

and ari's explanation: http://usinfo.state.gov/cgi-bin/washfile/display.pl?p=/products/ washfile/latest&f=03061701.tlt&t=/products/washfile/newsitem.shtml

"MR. FLEISCHER: Yesterday, in the President's remarks, he referred to -- he referred it to revisionist historians who are seeming to make the case that Saddam Hussein likely did not have, or did not have, weapons of mass destruction prior to the war. And the President bases that on some of the statements that he has heard where people are expressing doubt about whether or not the intelligence that was provided to the administration, as well as to Congress for many years was accurate intelligence information.

"The President has every reason to know that it was, indeed, accurate, just as previous administrations have said so, just as he believes so, and therefore, he said so. And so he looks at it and describes as revisionist history those who now seem to cast doubt on the accuracy of the intelligence information that stated that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction prior to the war."

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