Was there an insurgency after the American revolution Cheney? [View All]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Lynne Cheney had a history lesson for elementary school children Tuesday, likening this week's parliamentary elections in Iraq to America's own early struggle for democracy.

"Two hundred and seventeen years ago, we held our first vote under our Constitution," Vice President Dick Cheney's wife said. "We started then on the path the Iraqis are walking now."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/12/13/lynne.cheney.iraq.ap/index.html



I'm just floored by the ignorance in Lynne Cheney's comparison of Iraq's cobbling together of an authority after our invasion and occupation to the history of our country's struggle to free ourselves from British rule. I don't recall an insurgency in America after the revolution that sacrificed their own lives to unseat the patriots and bring the British back. The revolutionary war was about independence. Those citizens of Iraq who are resisting our occupation and the imposition of the propped up government that we defend with our military are more akin to the patriots of our revolution than the ones in the new authority there who acquiesced to our overthrow of that sovereign nation and its leader Saddam.

WE ARE THE OCCUPIERS! WE ARE THE FOREIGN INVADERS!

I imagine the vice president's wife explaining her whacked out reading of history to our nation's children and I'm frantic to take her words down. History is, to future generations, whatever survives the retelling.