http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

I thought some of you might appreciate this one. For the uninitiated, the robots.txt file at the root of a site is used to tell web crawlers (content gatherers for search engines) which areas of a site they can't crawl and save in their cache.

If you scroll down the mile long list there, you'll see that the Bush administration has disallowed web crawlers from crawling pretty much every single web page put up during Bush's reign. Which basically means that, as there are no records of those pages in any of the search engines, that the Bush administration can edit all those pages to "correct" anything Bush ever said, or anything that's ever been written there, without there being any evidence anywhere that they did it.

The truth is out there - but not at http://www.whitehouse.gov

heh, not exactly unsurprising. History is written, and re-written, by the victor... cheater... whatever. :shake:

Not just the victor or the cheater, the loser writes down whatever he wants as well, try to get your hands on an Iraqi history book and you'll learn that the mighty army of Iraq crushed the American aggressors in the first gulfwar. :D

And don't tell me that you actually believe that the historical facts in your own history books are all correct ?

Pac Man, if I did that, then I'd think Braveheart was a documentary. :rolleyes: If you want to get your facts straight, it's best to read several different sources, and piece it together yourself.

History is nothing but fiction loosely based on real events.

You're more right than you know. Shakespaere wrote a satire about Richard III. Made him out to be an evil bugger, and embellished, added his own traits etc. Many years on, and people take Shakespeare's satirical work, as a historical document.

This kind of thing happens a fair bit. All it takes is time, and any story, no matter how ridiculous it may sound, can become treated as fact.

Ah, George Orwell...