Op-Ed Columnist: Get Me Rewrite! by Paul Krugman, NYTimes

Right now America is going through an Orwellian moment. On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.

Let’s start with the case of the missing W.M.D. Do you remember when the C.I.A. was reviled by hawks because its analysts were reluctant to present a sufficiently alarming picture of the Iraqi threat? Your memories are no longer operative. On or about last Saturday, history was revised: see, it’s the C.I.A.’s fault that the threat was overstated. Given its warnings, the administration had no choice but to invade. …

I’d like to think that the administration’s crass efforts to rewrite history will backfire, that the media and the informed public won’t let officials get away with this. Have we finally had enough?