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[Bush]San
Francisco Chronicle
Monday, July 7 2003
[Bush’s sneer “revisionist historians”]History News Network119 South Main StreetSuite 220Seattle, WA 98104
To the Times, S F Chronicle:
To the editor:
LAST week, when his administration was criticized for justifying the Iraq invasion with forged evidence,
President Bush accused his critics of attempting to “rewrite history.” Then
Ari Fleisher sneered at
“revisionist historians.” As historians, we are troubled by these remarks.
It is central to the work of historians to search for accuracy, and to revise conclusions that prove to be unsupported by evidence. Revision, based on fresh evidence, is a good thing. The argument about the use of misleading claims in the
State of the Union address is not about revising history; it is about whether public statements were founded on honestly presented evidence.
Joyce Appleby, University of
California/Los AngelesAlan Brinkley, Columbia
UniversityLinda Gordon, New York
UniversityHendrik Hartog, Princeton
UniversityMichael Kazin, Georgetown
UniversityLinda Kerber, University of
IowaAlice Kessler-Harris, Columbia
UniversityVicki Ruiz, University of
California/IrvineRichard White, Stanford
University
Patrick
J.
Buchanan: Naked Forgery
Arab
sources tie US General Jay Garner,
candidate for Governor of Iraq, to
ruling Likud party in Israel
Patrick
Buchanan: Whose War?, in The American
Conservative. March 24, 2003