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General Franks delivered an Orwellian tour de force. In a single short interview, he blamed the Iraqis for their country's electricity shortage, even though the U.S. created the situation; said he is "very thankful" that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), even though this was one of the main justifications for the war; implied that the mere possibility that Saddam Hussein might have acquired WMD was a sufficient reason to go to war, even though such a broad premise would warrant attacking many other nations; and claimed that Saddam's regime was working with al-Qaeda...
...General Franks delivered an Orwellian tour de force. In a single short interview, he blamed the Iraqis for their country's electricity shortage, even though the U.S. created the situation; said he is "very thankful" that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), even though this was one of the main justifications for the war; implied that the mere possibility that Saddam Hussein might have acquired WMD justified the war, even though such a broad premise would warrant attacking many other nations; and claimed without evidence that Saddam's regime was working with al-Qaeda, even though there...
...darker and more ambitious piece of filmmaking is Casshern, which was released in April. Based on a 1970s animated series, the movie depicts an Orwellian dystopia where mankind is threatened with destruction by robots and mutants of its own creation, and humanity's only hope is the idealistic android Casshern. Though the premise is run-of-the-mill sci-fi and the actors often sound absurdly bombastic, the movie is visually breathtaking. Director Kazuaki Kiriya brings to life a sooty, machine-age hell that's all grinding gears, clanking metal and monolithic buildings swathed in Cyrillic characters. The fact that...
Saddam Hussein--Remember him? Thomas Keneally does. In The Tyrant's Novel (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 235 pages), Keneally has produced an Orwellian fable about an unnamed nation that is unmistakably Iraq, one ruled by a whimsical killer called Great Uncle. He likes Tommy Hilfiger cologne and fears germs so much that he obliges visitors, before they come near, to change into sterile surgeon's robes and submit to an anal probe. All the same, this is a clown with a cocked pistol in his belt, so sometimes the laughs come hard. When a pool tender at one of his many...
...Partial Birth Abortion Ban is another Orwellian innovation. Don’t waste your time leafing through medical textbooks for a description of partial birth abortion. The term is a political fabrication used to conjure a false image of crying babies being killed by evil doctors. The bill’s title loosely refers to an extremely rare medical procedure that is used as a last resort in the second or third trimester of a pregnancy, mostly when the fetus is already dead or when the mother’s life is in danger. Women’s rights advocates...