I awaited the National Geographic Television event... "George W Bush: the 9/11 Interview" with some academic interest. (Aired Sunday August 28, 8 pm in most time zones)
It was interesting trying to deduce what question W was answering at any given moment because the "interview" is missing an interviewer. The answers are missing questions. That may be seen as a "stylistic" device. One might see it as the next caveat after the "no oath, no transcript, Cheney present" caveats of his last great interview on the topic.
However Democrats and Americans at large have been through a long and hard 10 years, and much energy has been spent since 2002 untangling the conflation that Republicans and many media figures made between the events of 9/11 and Hussein's regime in Iraq.
So how did NATGEO follow up its first showing of "George W Bush: the 9/11 Interview" ? What would make an appropriate topic to go to as the last image of 9/11 carnage and emotional tumult fade from the screen?
"Inside Saddem Hussein's Reign of Terror".
Really?
Really?
There are over 4000 American fatalities and many more physically and mentally wounded victims of the sin of conflation. There are untold tens of thousands of Iraqi victims of the sin of conflation.
After trying to erase the memories of Cheney and Rumsfeld pulling their Miss Piggy style of offended Moi ?? when asked if they had ever committed the sin of conflation..
After watching the fake amnesia of significant media figures and networks about their sin of conflation...
NATGEO segues from the topic of "9/11" to the topic of the evils of Saddem Hussein.
There are two possible bright sides.
Upcoming showing of the Bush interview will be followed by other programs... and neither of these shows were aired on the History Channel where Nostradamus, alchemy, and aliens define the limits of History.
Note to NATGEO execs: The sin of conflation ought to be committed alone in the privacy of one's bedroom, or in a hotel room with Richard Perle, but not on a television network where your own mother can see what your doing. Her friend..... the mom down the street... lost a son due to your sin... so that you could continue your happy "coincidental" form of evil.