Our Own Holocaust Denial

The United States has always denied the holocausts in which it played a part (e.g., extermination of native Americans, the African slave trade), and the trend continues:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s flirtation with those who deny the reality of the Nazi genocide has rightly been met with disgust. But another holocaust denial is taking place with little notice: the holocaust in Iraq. The average American believes that 10,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the US invasion in March 2003. The most commonly cited figure in the media is 70,000. But the actual number of people who have been killed is most likely more than one million.

This is five times more than the estimates of killings in Darfur and even more than the genocide in Rwanda 13 years ago.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18765.htm

And something similar happened with regard to Operation Desert Storm.

A friend once told me that a person did not need a good memory as long as he never told a lie. America has no memory but is an expert liar.