1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

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--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>The number of Iraqi
> civilians killed in the war,
> deplorable though it still is, isn't even one
> percent of that number, and
> they weren't killed deliberately.

When the US military chooses to use weapons with a
known margin of error, in areas where non-combattants
are known to live and work, that's deliberate.  


>It isn't the same.
> They aren't comparable.

Bullshit.  Saddam is willing to kill innocents to
accomplish his goals and so is Bush.  If you want to
haggle numbers, go ahead.

> I'm not defending Bush either. 

Yes, it's plain you have no political axe to grind.

>But I think the
> infringements of civil
> liberties which an American, or anyone living in
> Western democracy, are
> complaining about are totally trivial when compared
> to what the people of
> Iraq or Afghanistan have had to endure. There is no
> legitimate comparison
> between Bush and Saddam, or Bush and Hitler, between
> a Western democracy and
> Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia, between Guantanamo
> Bay and Auschwitz, or
> the Gulags, between life in the U.S. and life in
> Saddam's Iraq. I think that
> claiming there is a comparison is an example of
> "doublethink".

A very moving statement of faith, this. Thanks for
sharing -- maybe if you send it along to Little Ali it
will comfort him in the loss of his arms and family,
gone in the US and British invasion. 



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