29 November 2006

Revisionist history

US Major General William Caldwell said yesterday that there was not a civil war in Iraq at this time "because the government is still functioning".

This should please American scholastic publishing companies who will now have to replace all of those high school history books that suggest, with no basis at all, that the United States had a civil war in the nineteenth century.

Forget Bull Run (I & II). Forget Appomattox Court House. Forget Antietam. Forget Gettysburg (and Lincoln's address). Forget Sherman's march to the sea. None of that actually occurred.

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