| Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the grease (via TPM). Apparently, the caption under the official Bush portrait to be displayed at the Smithsonian said the following, that Bush's term was: marked by "the attacks on September 11, 2001, that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Sanders fired off a letter to Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington: When President Bush and Vice President Cheney misled our country into the war in Iraq, they certainly cited the attacks on September 11, along with the equally specious claim that Iraq possessed vast arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. The notion, however, that 9/11 and Iraq were linked, or that one "led to" the other, has been widely and authoritatively debunked ... Might I suggest that a reconsideration of the explanatory text next to the portrait of President Bush is in order[?]
Sullivan's reply? They're removing the words "led to" and revising the statement for accuracy. Nice job, Bernie. If you could write the caption under the portrait, what would you have it say? |
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