News Quiz

If a foreign nation invades and occupies your own, setting up a puppet-government like the Nazis did in France during WWII, and you and some like-minded citizens decide to resist the foreign invaders and occupiers, you are properly identified as:

(a) a terrorist

(b) a freedom-fighter

(c) an extremist

(d) an insurgent

(e) a patriot

(f) la Resistance


Answer Key: If you answered (a), (c), or (d), you have clearly bought into the Orwellian Newspeak with which the Bush administration has poisoned the waters of our national conversation about its illegal, unjust, and immoral invasion and occupation of the sovereign nation of Iraq. Of course, the neo-con criminals are working from precedent: the Johnson and Nixon Administrations used the same terminology for the heroic defenders of the Vietnamese homeland.

In a way, I can hardly blame the Bush regime for its attempt to cover its crimes with favorable spin. I do blame and do not--and cannot--forgive this country's 4th Estate for betraying the American people into the hands of the Republicrat-Democan criminals by adopting and endorsing their Newspeak through its continuing use.

Unless and until we become capable, as a nation, of engaging in honest discourse about our military presence in Iraq, we will never come to terms with the murderous fraud--dare I say, the holocaust--we are perpetrating there.