Re: the 'politically correct war' spin from the right

[LuckyTheDog]

To righties who complain about the "political correctness" of the rules of engagement in Iraq:

The very idea that becoming more brutal and more indiscriminate about who we kill would make the Iraqi people want to cooperate with our occupation would be a laughable notion -- if it were not so misguided.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. George Orwell knew all about this....

"Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
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"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."

- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3