Press the Press

Again it is time to press the press. On Veterans Day 2005, George W. Bush again showed that he is a master of projection - accusing others of doing what he himself has done, and continues to do. He said, "It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."

Yes, it is.

In a 2003 interview, Bush said, "What's the difference?" to Diane Sawyer when she asked him what he would say to Congress if no WMDs were found in Iraq. This is the same man who mugged for the cameras, playfully looking for WMDs under his desk in the Oval Office.

But Bush doesn't only rewrite history; he erases it. He won't allow still photographs or televised coverage of fallen soldiers returning home, or being buried. The wounded - of whom there are many - were forgotten on November 11 as they have been regularly by a malignantly indifferent administration. The same administration is now planning to close Walter Reed Hospital, a major facility treating Americans who have been injured in Iraq.

The press cannot continue to allow George Bush to have it his way - which is backwards. If you don't see it (dead and wounded American soldiers) it doesn't exist. But if it really doesn't exist (WMDs or 9/11/Iraq links) then he sees it, everywhere.