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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (683091)	5/22/2005 4:59:31 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Brilliant. ================================================ Making Lies Sound Truthful: "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." --- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1945. Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. --- Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf) "The battlefield is a great place for liars," Stonewall Jackson once said on viewing the aftermath of a battle in the American civil war. The great general meant that the confusion of battle is such that anybody can claim anything during a war and hope to get away with it. “Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” --- author Flannery O’Conner Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur... goes a Latin proverb. The world wants to be deceived...