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Two words that we used to know as part of the English language have been assigned new definitions by the dictionary-editing American government. Freedom and liberation once were used to give names to indefinable concepts that simply existed but could not be appraised. Since the invasion of Iraq, the American government's attempts to turn freedom into an ideology rather than a human right have intensified. Those who are not defined as ''free'' by the US government are not in fact free at all and require immediate liberation, a term that once meant something similar to emancipation but now is used to mean to be brought under the direct or indirect control of the United States of America. It's no real surprise that the latest attack on Iraq is called Operation Iraqi Freedom, but is not in fact about freedom at all, but about liberation. And the US government wonders why their gun-toting ambassadors aren’t being met with parades and fireworks!
Before regime change became the priority of the Anglo-American strike on Iraq, we were told that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. And he might still have them. Maybe. But since UNMOVIC inspectors can't find them, Saddam must be hiding them! Because he has them! We have the receipts! The United States took what was once a technical term and turned it into any type of weapons that we sold you or didn't sell you but that we no longer think you deserve to have. What's frightening isn't that a madman might be stashing potentially devastating weapons in the Middle East, but that the United States government has entered into public use a term with a definition so loose but with ''acceptable consequences'' substantial enough to put any potentially unfriendly state at risk of invasion or worse.
The United States government has undertaken the task of slowly rewriting the English dictionary to fit its specifications, and has brought the predictions of George Orwell to life in terrifyingly accurate representations. The realities of the modern media blitz, where the world can only be safe while in a state of war, where freedom means subservience to the ideals of a country thousands of miles away and adherence to its school of thought, and where to know enough to question the state of affairs is said to demonstrate a weakness of faith in the ideals of freedom and democracy, it becomes clear that the administrations of the world's states tacitly acknowledge that:
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
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