Fake but accurate. The Legend continues! We should all learn our history from the 3 Seasons of Strangers with Candy DVDs.

Smantix’s thread-starting post is way off, though. He/she (sorry, I don’t know which is right and I don’t have an editor here) calls the AP story an “apples to eggplants comparison” and it WOULD HAVE BEEN had the story said the conflict in Iraq has lasted longer than WWII. The report correctly compares American involvement in both wars (America being involved in the entire Iraq action).

What Smantix is upset about is that this unpleasant fact is mentioned at all, not that it is false. But as that famous neo-conservative commentator Stephen Cobert has pointed out, objective journalism is really unbalanced journalism because the facts have a well-known liberal bias.

I don’t know who this Tom Raum guy is or where he took US History, but he is way off on the length of the American Revolution too. The amount of time between the Battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, and the Paris Peace Treaty, September 3, 1783, is exactly 8 years, 4 months and 16 days.

The Vietnam War is a little harder to date, but if you take the starting point as the date the first Green Berets were sent by JFK, and the end point as the last helicopter leaving the embassy (1961-1975), that’s 14 years. If you move the start date up to the Gulf of Tonkin incident (August 2, 1964) you’re still at 11 years. Even by moving the end date back to April 1, 1973, when most US forces had left, you’re at 8 years 8 months.

Of course, the AP never let a little thing like historical facts get in the way of making a political point.

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