Anytime Bush tries to say his critics are trying to revise history...

[Brotherjohn]

... you can be sure that what will follow is a lame attempt by him to revise history.

So he gives his big Veteran's Day speech the other day, saying the following:
"While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."

"...a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community's judgments..."

"...intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein."

...the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and possession of weapons of mass destruction."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101116.html

Oh my, where to start?! I'm sure you here, and every other thinking blog on the web, have already shot this to hell, and showed who the real "revisionist" is.

But just a sample:

- You didn't pressure the agencies to give you the intel you wanted (Cheney's CIA visits aside, harder to prove, although many analysts are on record saying he did). You simply came up with your own intelligence (OSP, WHIG) and ignored contrary intel. The record is so astounding clear, and public, on this, that it's hard to believe you can stand there with a straight face.

- Intel agencies from around the world agreed Saddam was likely working on some attempt at reconstituting some form of WMD programs ( or "WMD-program-related activities"?). But they, and their governments, were not sure. Which is why most of their governments opted to wait on the U.N. Weapons Inspections process, to determine once and for all what the real situation on the ground was. Your problem was, they were fast determining that almost all of the "intel" you were promoting (uranium from Niger, aluminum tubes, mobile bioweapons labs) was bogus. They explicitly said so on numerous occasions.

- So the UN "passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and possession" of WMDs. My my Georgie! AGAIN with the citing of "evidence" from before the 1991 Gulf War, even? Or after, when they said Iraq's nuclear program had been completely dismantled by 1998, or after returning inspectors in 2002, that they "would remain siezed of the matter" (explicitly NOT calling for further military action)? Do you mean THOSE resolutions, Georgie?

I remember when he pulled this "revisionist" crap some years ago (perhaps on another issue altogether), with that condescending tone he reserves for using a word he so obviously first learned from his advisors the day before. It want something like this: "Some people are doing what I like to call 'revisionist history'".

Yeah, George, what "you" like to call it. I'm sure you came up with it yourself. I'D never heard it before! :sarcasm:

Having just learned what revisionism meant a couple of years ago, I must admit, I'm impressed. He sure has mastered it!

[displacedtexan]

1. Who wanted us to fear a mushroom cloud? Hmmm?

Who was it?

Not Clinton?

Not the UN Security Council.

Not the rest of the world.

[Brotherjohn]

2. Right. And who wanted to launch a pre-emptive war? Who DID?

(...to pre-empt, what was it again? I forgot.)

Who was it?

Not Clinton.

Not the UN Security Council.

Not the rest of the world.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. He's taken a red crayon to so much of history

he's confused what the truth is. One thing about a perpetual liar like Bush is that he believes his own lies.

[underpants]

4. Very good + the biggest revision is the actual time line

blah blah blah IWR vote blah blah blah 1441 vote......UNMVOIC finds NOTHING...ATTACK!

There is your timeline. It doesn't matter who said what or what the intel said or what conventional wisdom* (usually ridiculed by the RW "New Truth" organizations) all that matters is that everyone KNEW there were no WMD before we attacked. WE KNEW IT! No. Nothing. Nada. Nil.

and still they attacked and occupied a country.

*if you want to go point to point on that it is clear (as stated in the original post) that they have lied about that from the beginning too.

[Village Idiot]

5. Keep right on "catapulting the propaganda," Chimpy-boy!

Perhaps SOMEONE will believe you...