Eengstro on May 2nd, 2007

As a reminder, let us not forget The Three Conjectures written by Wretchard back in 2003:
Conjecture 1: Terrorism has lowered the nuclear threshold.
Summary: The nuclear threshold — the point in which we attack (or counter-attack) with nuclear weapons — is crossed when an enemy has both the capability and the intent to use nuclear weapons [...]

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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 November 3rd, 2006

Today’s New York Times clearly admits that Saddam had the knowledge to build an atom bomb. (Original article here, via Drudge Report. Article reproduced here.)

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from [...]

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Eengstro on September 2nd, 2005

It looks like I was correct. The incorrect aerial photograph in Time’s Hiroshima photo essay has been removed.

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Eengstro on August 5th, 2005

I’m taking a look at a picture essay of the Hiroshima bombing at Time. Oddly, picture #8 does not appear to be from Hiroshima at all:

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The caption reads: “A panoramic aerial view of the city three weeks after the U.S. air raid”
I’m not exactly an expert here, but this appears to be [...]

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