>President Bush's astonishing new reason for the war with Iraq:
>Saddam wouldn't let weapons inspectors in.
>
>http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/07/15/bush/print.html
[...]
>Another recent president once said something that was blatantly untrue, if
>fairly trivial, and the videotape of his statement was replayed again, and
>again, and again, and again.
"BLACKWHITE. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to BELIEVE that black is white, and more, to KNOW that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and and which is known in Newspeak as DOUBLETHINK." --- GEORGE ORWELL Nineteen Eighty-four