Right now America is going through an Orwellian moment. On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.Krugman reminds us of the real history of the intelligence problems prior to the Iraq war and of the seemingly never-ending budget deficits. He also shows how those following BushCo's talking points are sticking to their stories - no matter how poorly backed up by facts - and, unfortunately, how most of the media appears to be swallowing those points hook, line and sinker.
This is an important piece. Not because it says things that haven't been said, but because it says them so succinctly, so well and all in one place. This is something you could easily print out and wave in the face of the next freeper who drones on about one of these talking points.
One more reason this piece is important - a somewhat parochial reason: Krugman credits a blogger, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo with reminding him of all these historical rewrites.
Lastly, Krugman closes his article sounding a lot like myself and other progressive/liberal bloggers:
I'd like to think that the administration's crass efforts to rewrite history will backfire, that the media and the informed public won't let officials get away with this. Have we finally had enough?
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