By Jonathan Zimmerman, History News Network
JUST WHEN YOU thought it was safe to study American history again ) the revisionists are back!
You know, those relativists who distort or simply fabricate the past to
make it fit their present-day biases. For instance, shortly after the
U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, President Bush attacked “revisionist
historians” who questioned his justifications for using force against
Saddam Hussein. He did it again on Veterans Day in 2005. “It is deeply
irresponsible,” he declared, “to rewrite the history of how the war
began.” [read more]