So, did someone sabotage Bush's inauguration speech?

[elfs]

Apparently Bush's speechwriter chose to include the sentence "By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well; a fire in the minds of men," into his speech when Bush was prattling on and on about his idea of liberty.

The sentence comes from a novel by Dostoevsky, The Devils. The speech is given by a member of a titular group of terrorists who, by the end of the book, fail to end the despotic regime under which they live.

Did Ms. Rice just wince?

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[slutdiary.livejournal.com]

You sent me on a bit of a Googling, and found this in a commentary on the author:

Dostoevsky, by the way, held a peculiar view of war. "War is not mankinds scourge", writes he, "but a medicine" (The Diary of a Writer). "The spiritual upsurge of the warring nation does not result in its brutalization but acts to spur it forward" (The Possessed). "Not war but rather prolonged peace lowers a nations spirit and may ultimately bestialize it".

Those quotes would appear to much closer approximate the state of mind of Bush.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

wonderf***ingful.

"But we were always at war with Oceania."