My spontaneous reaction listening to Bush was, for the first time ever
in hearing American presidents from Roosevelt on: "Hitler!" Hitler wrote
not to tell small lies to the people, because they can spot them. Tell
only Big Lies, because ordinary folk don't do that.
With all respect to and approval for Levich' article, the best
analysis of Bush' speech, along similar lines, was Fidel Castro's the
other day. Ask the Web for it.
Bill Mandel
PNFPNF@aol.com wrote:
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> Subject: FWD: 1984 (big brother)
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:03:04 -0700
> From: S Culver <ksvp@sinewave.com>
> To: george.miller-pub@mail.house.gov
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> ___ Jacob Levich (jlevich@earthlink.net) is a writer, editor, and activist
> living in Queens, New York.___
>
> "Bush's Orwellian Address"
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> Seventeen years later than expected, 1984 has arrived. In his address to
> Congress Thursday, George Bush effectively declared permanent war -- war
> without temporal or geographic limits; war without clear goals; war against
> a vaguely defined and constantly shifting enemy. Today it's Al-Qaida;
> tomorrow it may be Afghanistan; next year, it could be Iraq or Cuba or
> Chechnya.
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