Rewriting history

The President claims that his opponents (me, for example) are contorting historical facts in order to accuse him of fixing intelligence leading up to the Iraq war. He said:

"The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges."

I think he's exactly right about that part - this is an incredibly high-stakes conflict we've got going on, and it would be terribly irresponsible for anyone to make false or misleading claims about the facts.

Look, the truth clearly is that the information that was provided to Senators, the media, the UN and the American people was wrong. I think that the CIA was probably not involved in any attempt to fix intelligence, but that the mindset of "we should invade Iraq" within this administration probably led to any information regarding Saddam's nefarious behavior being passed to the top, however dubious it might have been. So while no conscious effort may have been made by those in the intelligence community to falsify the cause for war, the irresponsible group-think culture still puts the blame for the war on the White House doorstep. "Rewriting history" would be making efforts to shift this blame to those not responsible for gathering and interpreting intelligence, which is exactly what Bush's speech attempts to do.