Ludendorff, Not Lincoln: Bush's White House is Dismissive of History, Yet Increasingly Desperate to Rewrite It: "
Bush's presidency is an effort to defy history, not only in America, writing on the world as a blank slate. Now he wants to erase memory of his actual record, substituting a counterfactual history. "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history," said Lincoln. Never mind.
... 'We are at war,' insisted Gingrich. 'With whom?' he was asked. 'The Democrats,' he apparently replied without hesitation."
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