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George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language” combats the deficiencies seen in political speech. First and foremost, Orwell provides many assertions largely based on the pretense of political language, seen my common use of overused metaphors, adding on extra words to decorate or work around a main idea or where a simple word can be used instead, and meaningless words which can be interpreted by the audience in many ways, resulting in imprecise device used to convey a direct issue. Orwell then presents a series of grammatical and structural rules in which faults of political language can be easily noted and he provides a method on how to “cut out all stale images … prefabricated phrases, needless repetition … and vagueness.” Orwell does not simply make such generalizations from thin air, and his ideas are clearly seen as one analyzes a political speech of the modern world. The speech orated by George W. Bush, the current president of the United States, was directed towards Congress and American citizens, thus gaining the title a “Joint Session of Congress and the American People”. The speech was given nine days after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, and the presidential address was sought to answer the question: What will the United States do in order to prevent another attack and recuperate from the attack that just occurred? As many Americans were expecting to hear a speech focused on tightening national security within the United States and how to distract their minds from the sudden shock of the attack, Bush had called for support to declare an international campaign to diminish all existing terrorist groups around the world. President Bush falls into the traps and stereotypes as described by Orwell throughout the speech and thus shows how Bush veils his true objective of declaring war with deflections such as naming the terrorist group that attacked the United States, briefly mentioning victims of the attack and plans to...