The war in Iraq goes on and what can one say? Ancient Rome had gladiator fights in the arena and in the twenty first century we witness a 'gladiator' fight on our 'TV' sets - instead of swords and spears we have B-52 and Stealth bombers, huge bombs and missiles, hundreds of jets and tanks, aircraft carriers and destroyers and a variety of weapons and gadgetry to stun the imagination and we are all subjected to a propaganda barrage by a 'captive' media on both sides as the USA plunges into combat against the Iraqi regime - sadly differing opinions are brushed aside, the UN is sidetracked in a historical blunder, the world is divided into good and evil, the willing and the unwilling -- the 'invincibility' factor based on superior weaponry and the war begins.
Columns By Geov Parrish 'The war: The offficial war glossary doublespeak edition With the US war on Iraq, and the attendant propaganda unleashed, we are squarely within the confines of George Orwell's 1984.
Time to get our vocabulary in line.
As in all military actions (can we really call this one-sided massacre a "war"?), government and media advocacy for the planned U.S.
invasion of Iraq has introduced a number of new words and phrases, or new usages of existing ones, to the English language.
Midstream By Balraj Puri