Professor Turley: “This is the most well defined and publicly known crime I’ve seen in my lifetime.”

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Rachel is now the official voice for fighting against Bush historical revisionism

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Originally Published @ Care2.com, 18 February 2009, by Aaron D. Pendell

The first month of the Obama administration has been a whirlwind. The president signed the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act–the most comprehensive (and most expensive) legislation in American history–into law on Tuesday in Denver. The following day, Obama began to implement the economic recovery package, no doubt continuing the frenetic pace established since his inauguration. Congress, however, will likely set about getting some answers out of the Bush administration.

That the Congress and the President will be traveling separate paths is inconsequential and should be expected. As Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com perceptively posted on Sunday, the liberal, or progressive, electorate is by no means a homogeneous bunch. He describes progressives as being divided into “rational” and “radical” contingents with countless individual members falling somewhere between the two.

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Of the 12 historical happenings outlined in the post, my personal favorite is the douchebaggary perpetrated by Reagan, HW Bush, & Rumsfeld:  clandestinely treating with Iran during the hostage crisis, contributing to Reagan’s electoral victory over Jimmy Carter.

From Time for Change’s Journal, 6 March 2009 post, @ DemocraticUnderground.com:

“If Bush and Cheney commit war crimes and everyone knows it, but does nothing, are they still crimes?” – Jonathan Turley

Jonathan Turley’s rhetorical question gets to the heart of one of the biggest problems with our country (and many other countries as well): We sanitize our history to the point where we can believe in and present a version to the world that is vastly at odds with reality. While that serves the purpose of making many Americans feel better about their country, and also serves the purpose of maintaining the status quo, it greatly impedes progress towards making ourselves a better country. You can’t learn from your mistakes as long as you don’t recognize them. And they will be repeated over and over again until we learn from them.

While Jonathan Turley and many others are focused right now on the crimes of the Bush administration, as well they should be, we should also recognize that this pattern is nothing new. The powers that be have been sanitizing U.S. history since its inception.

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