1. I never knew that Donald Pleasance was in an early adaptation of 1984. I'm assuming it was on British TV in the 1950s.

2. Your post describes why no one points out how dictators like Saddam Hussein came to power with the help of the US government, who supplied him with chemical weapons and the intelligence to use the "effectively" against the Iranians, who's democratically elected leader was ousted by the CIA in a coup that installed Shah Mohammad Pahlavi as dictator of Iran.

No, wait, he was a good guy, he obviously freed all of those political prisoners from their thought-crimes.