N.Y. State American History Test Slams the Bushes

NewsMax.com's Fr. Michael Reilly uncovers anti-Bush bias in New York state's final exams.

New York state's educrats never miss an opportunity to slam conservatives while promoting their own leftist agenda, and the state's American History Regents exam administered to high school juniors throughout the state yesterday is no exception.

The annual Watergate question this year yielded to a question impugning President George H.W. Bush's motives in the first Gulf War.

Question 41 reads as follows:

"In 1991, one of the reasons President George H. W. Bush committed United States troops to the Persian Gulf War was to

"(1) maintain the flow of trade through the Suez Canal

"(2) fulfill military obligations as a member of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

"(3) contain the spread of communism in the Middle East

"(4) assure the flow of Middle East oil to the United States and its allies"

The liberation of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's invading army was not one of the choices.

And while they were at it, they took a cheap shot at President George W. Bush in Question 4:

"A major criticism of the electoral college system has been that

"(1) party loyalty is weakened after a presidential election

"(2) electors frequently fail to vote for a candidate

"(3) members of the electoral college are appointed for life terms

"(4) a president may be elected without receiving the majority of the popular vote"

While Bill Clinton fell short of a majority of the popular vote in 1992 and in 1996, you can be sure that Albany's educrats were talking about Bush in 2000.

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