Straight.com: George Bush's Ideology Is Downright Orwellian

" "Some 55 years ago, George Orwell was near death and his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was being prepared for publication in the U.S. On being informed of plans to present his book in North America as an attack on socialism, Orwell dictated a statement to his English publisher, Fredric Warburg.
"The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere," Orwell rasped to Warburg from fluid-filled lungs through a throat that had been damaged by a bullet in the Spanish Civil War more than a decade before, when Orwell was fighting alongside anarchists.
"Specifically the danger lies in the structure imposed on Socialist and on Liberal capitalist countries by the necessity to prepare for total war....But danger lies also in the acceptance of a totalitarian outlook by intellectuals of all colours." Orwell predicted the coming totalitarian ideologies of our age would be careful to avoid association with those that had just caused so much destruction in the Second World War and would come up with new names for themselves.
"The name suggested in Nineteen Eighty-Four is of course Ingsoc [English Socialism, in the 'newspeak' of the novel], but in practice a wide range of choices is open. In the U.S.A. the phrase 'Americanism' or 'hundred per cent Americanism' is suitable and the adjective is as totalitarian as anyone could wish."
It really is too bad that Orwell never had the opportunity to alter his novel in order to make it more understandable to the people of the U.S. by changing "Ingsoc" to "Amercorp", but his provisional designation of "hundred per cent Americanism" still resonates after more than half a century and likely would have no trouble getting an endorsement from U.S. President George Bush. There is plenty of evidence that the U.S. government conforms to the philosophy of Orwell's Ingsoc and sees the purpose of power as being to perpetuate, increase, and exercise power for its own sake."