"War is Peace"

George Orwell's novel "1984" has never been as cogent as last week when President Obama's pronouncement of the official occupation being over in Iraq was broadcast, and the last so-called combat troops moved into Kuwait (?). Thus a campaign promise was met, regardless of the fact that thousands of troops are there to back up the Iraqi forces, and have already been in "firefights;" and that thousands of mercendary soldier contractors are there as well. "War is Peace."

When is a war not a war, when is a "peace action" a peace action? My war was Korea, called a "police action" for a long time. We were, ostensibly policing the communists because they were breaking our cold war rules ... imposed largely by us, of course, and in collusion with the UN. Vietnam was an admitted war, a full scale version of a cold war outbreak, and it was on television (Korea was not, except in a minor way, and then became a TV sitcom for years after that).

A journalist named Rosen said last week (as the Orwellian rhetoric tried to drowned out the realities") that "Iraq is in a twilight zone." He described what he has seen and knows to be still happening as the Iraqi people suffer horrible standards of living while the largest American embassy in the world watches, waits and survives as part of the Green Zone. The realities he described are so contradictory as to be totally Orwellian. Who is scripting this thing? Is George Orwell novel to become mandatory reading for the times ahead? Has President Obama ever read it?