NP? "the feeling that it is Hate Week in Orwell's 1984"

[pynchonoid]

"We are on the brink of a war that will undoubtedly be
disastrous for the people of Iraq, and likely even
more so for the people of the United States. Listening
to President Bush's rhetoric, one has the feeling that
it is Hate Week in Orwell's 1984. [...] Sometimes in
the flurry of administration invective, it is
difficult to remember that it is the United States
that has an arsenal of 10,000 nuclear weapons and Iraq
that has none, or that it is the US military that is
surrounding Iraq and that Iraq has not actually made
any threat against the US. [...]"

February 8, 2003
On the Brink of War
Mandela: "Stop the Holocaust"
By DAVID KRIEGER
<http://www.counterpunch.org/krieger02082003.html>

see also:
<http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Casualties-note.html>

"When armies begin to move and flags wave and slogans
pop up watch out little guy because it's somebody
else's chestnuts in the fire not yours. It's words
you're fighting for and you're not making an honest
deal your life for something better. You're being
noble and after you're killed the thing you traded
your life for won't do you any good and chances are it
won't do anybody else any good either."
<http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html>



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