Revisionism by Rumsfeld

Wow, after all the complaints by Bushies cabal that the war opponents were “trying to re-write” history and were guilty of vile “revisionism”, it turns out that Donald Rumsfeld is trying to re-write the English dictionary. He has just decided that after 2 ½ years of war in Iraq, the enemy insurgents will no longer be called insurgents. “This is a group of people who don't merit the word 'insurgency'. Saying “It was an epiphany,” the thought had came to him suddenly over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Apparently, the fact that an uprising by Iraqi citizens against the American troops occupying their country was given legitimacy by the Iraqi government, isn't helping the PR efforts underway to continue selling the war.

If the Bush cabal can't get any Americans to believe the government's policy, what better way to solve the problem than by re-defining it so it can be ignored? They firmly believe that the truth is what they say it is – regardless of the facts.
Posted on The Human Stain