Comment: Well, we agree with one thing Mr. Cheney said. The Democrats are, indeed, opportunists. When US public opinion wanted war, they wanted war; now that public opinion has shifted, so have the Dems. That's principle for ya!

That aside, it is both remarkable and predictable to see the Bush administration picking up the "Our opponents are rewriting history" meme. It is predictable because what else are a bunch of psychopaths going to do but accuse the opponents of the war of their own crimes. It is remarkable because the White House has bragged about how it is creating a new reality while their opponents are mired in a reality-based mindset, so the Bush administration have admitted that their history is fake. This idea appears to be the key to understanding what they are trying to do.

It has nothing to do with the truth.

When the president or vice-president accuse their opponents (we hestitate to call the Democrats opponents of the war for obvious reasons) of rewriting history, they are referring to a rewriting of the false history that was written by the White House in the first place, a history that was, by its own admission, not reality-based, that is to say, not true. However, Cheney and Bush have not accused the Democrats and others of not telling the truth; they are accused of telling a different story than the White House. The Democrats are writing a different history than the false Republican history.

However, one shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that the new Democratic history has any more to due with the truth than the original, for the truth is that the US is an imperialist aggressor in Iraq, had no justifiable or legal reason whatsoever for invading the country, and has no justifiable or legal reason for remaining. The US is the wrong side in this war.

How many Republicans or Democrats are willing to write that history?

Comment: What was the number of Jews detained by the Germans during the first two years of WW II? Are we getting close yet?

Comment: From The Independent:

Jeff Englehart, a former marine who spent two days in Fallujah during the battle, said he heard the order go out over military communication that WP was to be dropped. In the RAI film, Mr Englehart, now an outspoken critic of the war, says: "I heard the order to pay attention because they were going to use white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military jargon it's known as Willy Pete ... Phosphorus burns bodies, in fact it melts the flesh all the way down to the bone ... I saw the burned bodies of women and children."

Given that the US government lied about the use of WP in the first place, it is clear that they have no qualms about deceiving the American people. As such, nothing they say - including their recent clarifications - can be trusted.