I finally got a chance to look at some news today, and I found this Reuters article about some things Bush said today. Here is what was able to gather from the video clip on Yahoo!’s website (the video can also be found at ABC News):
…While it’s perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct with the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began…
…As our troops fight a ruthless enemy determined to destroy our way [of] life, they deserve to know that their elected leaders who voted to send them to war continue to stand behind them…
What I’m trying to figure out is how Bush thinks history is being rewritten. From everything I am seeing, hearing or reading in the news, investigations are being held to correctly determine what actually happened leading up to the invasion of Iraq. I understood three years ago that the US was invading because there was "solid evidence" that Iraq purchased weapons-grade materials, with the potential to use them for WMDs. What I understand now is that there were no WMDs to be found and the evidence supporting their existence was likely fabricated. The US invasion was approved under false pretenses. I don’t see anyone rewriting history except for those impeding an investigation into the facts. There is plenty of blame to go around, and plenty of yet-to-be-printed pages in history books to document who was responsible for this mess.
I didn’t know whether to make a whole post about this, or just leave a comment. I chose the latter mostly because I’m not feeling well right now. Fred Kaplan has an analysis on Bush’s speech over at Slate. It gets to the point that I my not have reached here in my original post.