Material Witnesses and Enemy Combatants - Democratic Party

This is the second in a series of articles examining the Timothy Lynch’s article, Doublespeak and The War on Terrorism. George Orwell, who introduced the concept of doublespeak in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, depicted a totalitarian state where posters everywhere proclaimed that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. In Timothy Lynch’s article he looks at the way the Bush Administration has redefined and developed a new vocabulary during the War on Terror.