Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Christopher Hitchens, “I Wanted It To Rain on Their Parade,” The Mirror, (February 18, 2003); “Pious Nonsense: The Unholy ‘Christian’ Case Against War,” Slate (March 10, 2003); “We Must Keep Our Nerve,” The Mirror (March 25, 2003); “Our Troops Must Stay Strong,” The Mirror (April 2, 2003); “What Happens Next to Iraq?,” The Mirror (February 25, 2003); “ ‘Drumbeat’ Bush Rushing to War?Nonsense,” Nonsense,” Slate, (February 24, 2003); Jonathan Weiner, “Hitchens Arrives,” Orange County Weekly (March 21–27, 2003); Doug Ireland, “Getting Bush Whacked,” LA Weekly (March 14–20, 2003); Scott Galupo and Daniel Wattenberg, “Christopher Hitchens’ Journey,” Washington Times (March 25, 2003). 2. George Orwell, Nineeteen Eighty-Four, A Novel (London: Secker and Warburg, 1949). 3. Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters (New York: Basic, 2002), 35–102 4. Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, p. 5. 5. George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” [1940], reproduced in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds., The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume I: An Age Like This, 1929–1940 (Boston: New Pareil, 2000), pp. 416–417. 6. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (New York, NY: Berkeley Medallion Books, 1961), p. 190. 7. Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, p. 144. 8. Orwell and Angus, An Age Like This, p. 539. 9. Ibid, p. 459. 10. Ibid, pp. 283–285. 11. Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, p. 61. 12. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, pp. 156–157. 13. Ibid, pp. 157–158. 14. Alex Carey, Taking The Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois, 1997),pp. 11–17, 109–139. 15. Paul Street, “Big Brother Bush, ‘Suicidal’ Saddam and the Homegrown Threat to Liberal Democracy,” ZNet(January 22, 2003), available on line: www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm? Section ID=11&ItemID=2900; Paul Street, “State of Deception,” ZNet (January 28, 2003), available on line: www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm? SectionID=10&ItemID=2921 16. Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, p. 104 and Chapter 4, Passim.