{"id":428,"date":"2004-02-09T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T01:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/02\/09\/rewriting-history\/"},"modified":"2004-02-09T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T01:02:41","slug":"rewriting-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/02\/09\/rewriting-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a83'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to make mistakes. We all make mistakes, and I probably make more than my share. It&#8217;s a whole different thing to refuse to admit one&#8217;s mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>I admit it, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\">Instapundit<\/a> to find out what others are thinking. Most of the time, I simply disagree with Glenn Reynolds. He has one way of looking a the world, and most of the time he&#8217;s consistent, and I just happen to disagree with his view of the world.<\/p>\n<p>But what really bugs me is when Glenn and his blogger friends misrepresent history in order to appear infallible. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/013945.php\">this obsession with saying that Bush never claimed the Iraq threat was &#8220;imminent.&#8221;<\/a> Come on! Okay, maybe Bush was misled by poor intelligence&#8230; I don&#8217;t believe it, but at least that would be a consistent argument. But to deny things said on public record? What is the point? Isn&#8217;t the Iraqi &#8220;imminent threat&#8221; the reason we went to war so quickly? Isn&#8217;t that why we couldn&#8217;t wait for inspectors to finish their job?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even need to argue the simple logic here, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&amp;b=24970\">the Center for American Progress has the facts<\/a>. &#8220;The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency&#8221; said Bush in October 2002. And that&#8217;s just one of many many quotations on public record from Bush and his staff.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn, do yourself a favor: admit that you&#8217;re fallible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to make mistakes. We all make mistakes, and I probably make more than my share. It&#8217;s a whole different thing to refuse to admit one&#8217;s mistakes. I admit it, I read Instapundit to find out what others are thinking. Most of the time, I simply disagree with Glenn Reynolds. He has one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}