Eengstro on September 6th, 2007

StrategyPage has an excellent op-ed today:

The major problem in Iraq is back in the United States. There, many politicians either don’t bother, or don’t want to believe, what is actually happening, and has happened, in Iraq. In a way, that makes sense. Because what is going on in Iraq is so totally alien to the [...]

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Eengstro on May 22nd, 2007

I’ve gotten quite bored with writing about politics, or even thinking about politics. I used to engage in political debate with gusto, and enjoyed it, but now the whole enterprise just makes me weary. Maybe it’s something to do with turning 30.
Or, maybe it’s because of the stunning incompetence of the Republican Party. With a [...]

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Eengstro on March 20th, 2007

I ran across this article today, which sums up the lies and selective memory of the left. Excerpts:

Yet even stipulating–which I do only for the sake of argument–that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq in the period leading up to the invasion, it defies all reason to think that Mr. Bush was lying [...]

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Eengstro on January 20th, 2006

So, we have Hillary Clinton calling the Bush administration “one of the worst” in history:

“I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country,” she said.

Is is just me, or does it seem that Clinton has little credibility to make such a [...]

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