The Tienanmen Square protest took place 25 years ago, over a seven week period in 1989. It was a massive shock to Chinese society, in which dozens were killed and hundreds injured, and yet a quarter of a century later, the Chinese government has succeeded in almost entirely erasing those from the public's collective memory.

The American Conquest and Occupation of Iraq took place 11 years ago, over a eight-and-a-half year period between March 2003 and December 2011 and it laid bare a massive rift in American society. During the war, over 4,400 American soldiers and somewhere between 100,000 and 600,000 Iraqis were killed. Over 32,000 American service men and women were wounded in action, and the long-term and ongoing psychological and emotional toll the war has taken on 2.5 million American soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan has yet to be calculated.

And yet, a mere three years after the last American troops rolled out of Iraq, the Elite American Media has succeeded in pounding out and sanding over the most infamous and tragic milestones of that war.

For half of the voting public -- the half that lives outside the Republic of Jebusland -- the details of the Bush Administration are fresh and clear. It was, without doubt, the worst Administration in American history: a regime which not only left more toxic foreign, domestic and economic catastrophes in its wake than any other, but one which casually committed more impeachable offenses during any given month than Bill Clinton managed in eight years in office.

It was also a regime which enjoyed the loud and unstinting support of American Conservatives from the day it stole the 2000 election until the day it slunk from office eight years later.

But the Bush-Off Machine has been allowed to do its work virtually unmolested and so, as predicted by virtually every Liberal I know including me --

In five years, having voted for Bush will have become the parachute pants of this decade.

It will become the “Oh my GOD. What the fuck was I thinking?” shameful secret people will occasionally and elliptically allude to by piping up with, “well, he did good after 9/11”...

-- the treasonous history of the Bush Administration and the eager participation of its tens of millions of collaborators -- our political Chernobyl -- now lies buried beneath vast, thick sarcophagus of money, media and willful Strategic Forgettery.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/06/it-will-shock-you-how-much-it-never.html