Rewriting History

After hearing George Bush's remarks criticizing Democrats for "rewriting history," the word that comes to mind is Chutzpah. This from an administration that is all about lying and rewriting history, from aluminum tubes, to yellowcake, to Jessica Lynch, to the death of Pat Tillman. In each instance the Administration pushed the limits of being able to say they didn't lie in order to further their agenda or score political points.

Anyone who questions their need to score political points only has to remember that Bush pushed for a vote on the authority to go to war prior, not after, the 2002 election. During the same 2002 election the GOP used images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to defeat Democratic Senator Max Cleland.

In 2004 this manipulation added up to just enough votes to stay in the White House, but as Abraham Lincoln said "You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

And that's the problem Bush is facing. Too many people feel fooled. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll found that 57 percent of Americans agree that Bush "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq."

So in reality, what Bush is concerned about is not that the Democrats are rewriting history falsely, but rather that the Democrats are informing the public about the actual events that transpired, thereby rewriting the White House's questionable version of history.