[QUOTE=John Mace]
There’s only one reason for this. Bush plans to take us to war against Iraq before the end of the year. That’s virtually certain. Does anyone want to bet otherwise?
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Actually, this would make a nice little diversion from the existing mess in Iraq. Once you start some good old fashioned nuclear posturing with Iran, people will forget all about losing a few soldiers a day (not to mention dozens or hundreds of noncombatants) next door. Heck, it worked with Afghanistan.
I think Bush is really too busy to mind all the details of the "p"s and "q"s. So a little “n” worked it’s way into Iraq; what, are you going to make a big deal about it? (I’m kind of surprised that Bush doesn’t get the country confused with a muscle car.)
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
I’m guessing the next renaming will be to Department of Peace.
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Why not just go all the way and rechristen it the Ministry of Peace?
*On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns — after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces — at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy…The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd. The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed.
The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax…Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.*[right]-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four[/right]
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