echoes of P's _1984_ intro

[pynchonoid]

Molly Ivins 
Creators Syndicate 
02.10.04

Setting the record straight
Time to draw a line against the rewriting of history

AUSTIN, Texas -- Just for the record, since the record
is in considerable peril. These are Orwellian days, my
friends, as the Bush administration attempts to either
shove the history of the second Gulf War down the
memory hole or to rewrite it entirely. Keeping a firm
grip on actual historical fact, all of it easily
within our imperfect memories, is not that easy amid
the swirling storms of misinformation, misremembering
and misstatement. But since the war itself stands as a
monument to what happens when we let ourselves get
stampeded by a chorus of disinformation, let's draw
the line right now.

According to the 500-man American team that spent
hundreds of millions of dollars looking for Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction, there aren't any and have
not been any since 1991.

Both President Bush and Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, now claim Saddam
Hussein provoked this war by refusing to allow United
Nations weapons inspectors into his country. That is
not true.[...]


...read it all, and worth reading it is:
<http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16415>

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