Revisionist History: Antiwar Myths About Iraq, Debunked (Wall St. Journal; free email registration may be required).

Peter Wehner catalogues and debunks many of the myths spouted by the antiwar left. Whether you agree or disagree with the war in Iraq, I encourage you to give it a serious read. There are fair arguments to be made against the war, but many of those made in popular discourse are baseless. Maybe reading this article will help the war critics to strengthen their arguments by not basing them on these fictions.

These, then, are the urban legends we must counter, else falsehoods become conventional wisdom. And what a strange world it is: For many antiwar critics, the president is faulted for the war, and he, not the former dictator of Iraq, inspires rage. The liberator rather than the oppressor provokes hatred. It is as if we have stepped through the political looking glass, into a world turned upside down and inside out.

Go figure.

Well, things are going reasonably well of late. I've been trying to get a lot of things out of the way that I've been meaning to do for a while.

First, I finally did some surgery on my old iBook which had an apparent hard drive failure just after I gave it to Wes. I got a good deal on a 40gb notebook drive and worked up the courage to go through the 17 pages of directions to remove and replace an iBook drive. After spending most of last Saturday afternoon on it, I can safely say that the iBook had more serious problems -- I declared it permanently dead, gutted the useful parts, and returned the new drive.

I also wrote a letter (sent & posted earlier today) I've been meaning to write for a long time. I think it speaks for itself. I have another one in the works too for Mel Riddile, but I'm not sure when I'll finish it up ;-).

In other news, Plexus is working on getting me an Applied Management professional certification...