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Sheesh, I simply HAVE to reply to Kaminski’s statement was what "Orwell said."

George Orwell did NOT say “War is peace.” That statement is one of the three mottos of the RUTHLESS TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT that Orwell is ATTACKING , satirizing, in the novel “1984”: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," "Ignorance is strength." These three statements are examples of what Orwell calls “newspeak” and “doublethink”--verbal and mental tactics that are pure manipulative lies on the part of those who use them.

From the novel itself:

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'. . . .

His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”

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This is exactly what John Kaminski’s use of Orwell’s writing here is: newspeak, doublethink--lying, manipulation.