WORSE THAN THOSE SWEDISH DUDES

Here’s Microsoft in 1978. No, I wouldn’t have invested either.

THE THREAT OF FREEDOM: It’s not just the right to free speech and free association that the left is now worried about in Iraq. It’s the possibility of capitalism breaking out. At this rate, some in the Arab world might be rich as well as free. Deeply, deeply worrying.

THOSE WMDS: Since everyone who opposed the war, we’re now told, didn’t believe that Saddam had WMDs, why did they use preposterous arguments like the following:

If Saddam’s regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal… If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons… Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.

That was Ted Kennedy. It’s worth recalling, as those with 20/20 hindsight lambaste the administration for taking intelligence threats seriously, that even opponents of the war believed that Saddam had the capacity to use WMDs at a moment’s notice against American troops.

A NEW RESOURCE: The web provides a tool for reading and researching some of the most important speeches in history – and some of the more contentious ones today. Enjoy.