Saddam Hussein: "Guilty of thought crime" - Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/barroomparrots

Apparently dead to irony and unaware that this year of our Lord, 2004, is twenty years beyond the title date of that novel written by George Orwell in 1948 as the Cold War was getting under way, Dick "Head" Cheney today declared that Saddam Hussein had held evil thoughts toward the United States.

"This fully justified the war on Iraq"

said the Head man

".. or the effectual president of the USA is not George W Bush!"

Unrest broke out as secret service agents attempted to remove one or two journalists who initially seemed keen to ask questions of Mr Head. Questioning of the Head/Bush administration's statements has been so far off the agenda for so long that the agents had apparently forgotten what real questions sounded like. A small blogger in the room reminded them, and somebody else pointed out that 1984 was a novel, not a Head/Bush user manual, and peace was restored as Mr Head left the building with surprising alacrity.