The End Is Nigh –

– quick, rewrite history!!

On Tuesday, Stephen Hayes, a conservative columnist and analyst for CNN, revealed that George Bush and Karl Rove have launched a new propaganda campaign with the monumental goal of rewriting the history of the past eight years. The newspeak title of the enterprise is the “Bush legacy project.”

Catchy code name, here’s how it goes….

George Bush on the necessity of Invading Iraq

GIBSON: If the intelligence had been right, would there have been an Iraq war?

BUSH: Yes, because Saddam Hussein was unwilling to let the inspectors go in to determine whether or not the U.N. resolutions were being upheld. In other words, if he had had weapons of mass destruction, would there have been a war? Absolutely.

(emphasis mine)

And here’s reality

…. Saddam Hussein allowed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into Iraq in December 2002, four months before the war began. The inspectors destroyed Iraq’s remaining stockpiles of al Samoud missiles in early 2003, a move that independent analysts saw as a serious effort by Saddam to disarm in order to avoid war. On March 7, Hans Blix, the head of the IEAE inspection team, told the UN that “at this juncture we are able to perform professional, no-notice inspections all over Iraq and to increase aerial surveys.” Immediately after Blix’ report, however, Bush warned the inspectors to prepare to leave Iraq. Ten days later, he ordered them out of the country. The invasion began three days later, on March 20.

George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.“, given that it is Bush’s version of events that will probably end up in America’s history books for their next generation to learn from the future looks bleak indeed.