Mother Jones: Remember When Paul Wolfowitz Said Not to Worry About Sectarian Violence in Iraq?

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19. Ideologues like Wolfowitz don't believe in "objective reality"

For them, reality is whatever they believe it to be.

Very Orwellian:

"The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens." O'Brien to Winston Smith in 1984

From The New York Times Magazine 2004:

The aide (later identified as Rove) said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."