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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (62731)	12/22/2002 1:52:11 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

Gottfried. Just a quick note. If you want to do a dispassionate rendering of the atrocious langusge used by the press and government with respect to foreign affairs, be my guest. I'd guess that Solomon's model is George Orwell: Politics and the English Language 1946 "Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it belongs. resort.com Everytime I read this essay I have twinges of embarrassment for things I've written.... But Gottfried, I still think Hussein's WMDs aren't the same as those of US, France and Great Britain and it's because he used them on his own folk.