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August 21, 2006
Erasing History
In yet another example of the pathetic and slavish devotion to hiding things from the American people that is the hallmark of the Bush Administration -- and of their Orwellian attempts to rewrite history to cover their own mistakes (Iraq was invaded because Saddam had WMDs he was going to use to attack America... because Saddam was connected to al Qaeda and 9/11... because we're dedicated to democracy and freedom for the Iraqi people), the BUsh Adminstration is now trying to censor public information about US arsenals... from 20, 30, or in some cases even 35 years ago.
The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War...
In a 1971 appearance before the House Armed Services Committee, for instance, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird offered a chart showing, among other things, that the United States had 30 strategic bomber squadrons, 54 Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles and 1,000 Minuteman missiles. Those numbers, made public on March 9, 1971, are redacted in a copy of the chart obtained by the archive's researchers in January as part of a declassified government history of the U.S. air and missile defense system, according to archive officials.
This adminstration is so afraid of truth, so afraid of what Americans might do if given actual information instead of the propagandic slop that spews from Bush, Cheney, and their minions in the administration and the conservative media in this country... so dismissive and disrespectful of the intelligence and ability to think for ourselves of the American people, that they're now re-classifying 35 year old information in order to hide it from you.
This is far and away the most evil and despicable group of human beings ever to have seized power in this country's history. George Orwell, you've got George W on line 3.
