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In a post here, I read the following:
George Bush's ability to carry out the Iraq war was based partly on a deep American belief, our story, that we are the "good guys" and that they are the "bad" guys". When a story wins, it is called "history".
Total crap. George Bush lied through his teeth. Irawi weapons of mass destruction are not lost in some postmodern never-neverland of indeterminacy--they were not there. Iraq was no threat to the US. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. These are old fashioned FACTS. Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, banged into the West Indies, and killed a huge number of people directly through murder and torture, indirectly through the spread of diseases he didn't understand. The Holocaust Happened. People were herded into gas chambers and massacred. That's not a "story." It's all too bloody real. If the Nazis had won and pretended it didn't happen, IT STILL WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. No story could ever hav e changed that. Historians can and do every day debunk dopey stories and see through cant and propoganda. If the also sometimes spread it, well, they are human and fallible. But the job can be done, and is. If it wasn't, we'd still have human slaves and pretend the Earth was flat.
