Saved From The Skip

According to a top secret document leaked to the Skip, US Vice President Dick Cheney is actively considering legislation which would ban "Iraq revisionism": that is, the act of suggesting that intelligence was somehow manipulated by government to mislead the nation in the run-up to war.

It seems he got the idea from Austria, where revisionist historian David Irving faces trial for "Holocaust Denial"... a crime which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years.

"Those Austrians sure know how to handle historical dissidents," Cheney is reported to have said when he heard of the case. "That's exactly the kind of treatment we need for all these shameless, hypocritical, reprehensible, dishonest, double-dealing, dirty, low-down, Democrat revisionist traitors!"

The legislation, called the "Honesty Act", is currently being drawn up by the Ministry of Truth. Among the activities that it will make illegal are:

> claiming that the President was dishonest about the extent of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the build up to the war.

> claiming that the Niger Uranium allegation made in the State of the Union Address 2003 was known to be false at the time of the speech;

> claiming that the US tried to create a link between Iraq and September 11 before the war;

> claiming that George Bush seriously believes God told him to invade Iraq;

> claiming that US forces used white phosphorus against human targets;

> claiming that the US president contemplated bombing Al Jazeera in Qatar;
and finally:

> claiming anything at all without the written approval of the US State Department.