By Andrew L. Jaffee

Stop the presses: Mayan priests are upset about President Bush’s planned visit to Guatemala. No doubt, Maya civilization rose to great heights, but it also degenerated into an imperialist, egomaniacal bloodbath. Who needs history when the revisionists can sanitize it?

Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

“That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture,” Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.

Oy, vey.