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Of course war is wrong. But if permitted to continue, Hussein is likely to build nukes and give them to terrorists, who will nuke us. No one says he’s unlikely to do that. We can’t permit that to happen.
Winston S. Churchill, the grandson of Winston Churchill, wrote in the The Wall Street Journal:
My grandfather’s resolve and leadership offer a second parallel to today’s situation—one that confronted the world 55 years ago, when America was on the point of losing her monopoly of the atomic bomb. As leader of the opposition in the British parliament, Churchill was gravely alarmed at the prospect of the Soviet Union acquiring atomic, and eventually nuclear, weapons of its own. He said at the time, “What will happen when they get the atomic bomb themselves and have accumulated a large store? No one in his senses can believe that we have a limitless period of time before us.”
As President Bush and Mr. Blair intend today in the case of Iraq, Winston Churchill in 1948 favored the threat and—if need be the reality—of a pre-emptive strike to safeguard the interests of the Free World. Aware of the dangers ahead, Churchill believed that the U.S.—while it still had a monopoly of atomic power—should require the Soviet Union to abandon the development of these weapons, if need be by threatening their use.
The Truman administration chose not to heed his advice. The result was the Cold War, in the course of which the world—on more than one occasion—came perilously close to a nuclear holocaust.
It is no great surprise that the nations which long toiled under the yoke of communism during the Cold War are our greatest supporters today.
Many have said that the war will create terrorists. But as Churchill says in this article, those we have freed from tyranny in the past, have become our friends and allies. By freeing the Iraqi people from a dictator who everyone agrees is a murderous tyrant, we may earn the friendship of millions, and a powerful ally.
The importance of entertainment is famously increased during wartime. The Matrix anime trailer is here.
Scrappleface lets you send an encouraging word to our troops here.
Deane Barker posted one of the best jokes I’ve heard in quite a while here.
Okay, here’s something someone ought to do. Be the Matt Drudge of the Blogosphere. Assemble on one weblog every day the five or ten best blog entries he or she can find.
It would be a great website – it would get a lot of traffic – and it would be a real service to the Blogworld, by drawing attention to the best links.
I just did a Google search on “Best Weblog”, and nothing like this came up. There are some awards and prizes, but no one appears to be doing what Drudge does, where he seeks out and posts the best permalinks he can find each day.
So if you’re reading this – it could be you. 
A lot of people are concerned about the rush to reality programming. Why is reality programming so popular at the moment? Does anybody like seeing people eat bugs, for example?
Part of it is that the dramas are too much alike. People are getting driven away from scripted TV because most of the dramas on TV are cop shows. There is some variety. We have both kinds of cop shows: mostly forensic and partly forensic .
People want new stuff.
