Politicians are amazing. Saturday Iraqi officials applauded the new crackdown in Baghdad: "On Saturday, the Iraqi spokesman for the plan, Brig. Gen. Qassim Moussawi, said violence had plummeted by 80 percent in the capital" (Yahoo news). Then the next day new car bombings kill 63. What does this mean? According to the Prime Minister, "These crimes confirm the defeat of these perpetrators and their failure in confronting our armed forces, which are determined to cleanse the dens of terrorism," al-Maliki said in a statement. Alice's Wonderland with carnage.
The Doublespeak Website.
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1984 is my all-time favorite book. I was shaking at the end. It's terrifing, (and at the same time GENIUS) how Orwell got it all so right.
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