>>Ever read "1984"?
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>Oh yes! :)
The reason I mention this, of course, is because in that story, they did this kind of stuff all the time. Except that instead of "Secretary of Defense", the title was "Minister of Peace", IIRC. His main function, of course, was to wage war.
Plus a few other ministers whose titles I don't remember, but equally contradictory to what they actually did.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
