Cap Pistol Shoot out in Pundit-land:
Here's my personal take on things. I was right from minute one. George Bush is a moron surrounded by war profiteers and Likudite double agents. I hope the Dems take back the house in November and impeach the mo'fo' and a lot more besides. We have to get to the bottom of the fake elections and have a real investigation into 9/11. The historical record won't be complete until we do. I want the whole truth to come out about everything including how stupid and heartless the 'Bush lovers' have been. There's going to be an awful lot of people who say, "they knew it all along". I don't want them to get away with it. Bushistas are like the 'good Germans' of the the 1930s. They're the enablers. They made the Bush crimes possible...

On Iraq, Plenty of Scores to Settle Even If the Dust Hasn't
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 20, 2006

For some liberal pundits, it's payback time.

For some conservative commentators, it's time for uncomfortable explanations.

For the rest of us, it's the best show in town.

It was probably inevitable, once the Iraq war started to go badly -- though how badly remains a matter of political dispute -- that those who opposed it from the start would begin kicking sand in the face of those who backed it from the start. Had the war been a smashing success, accusing fingers would undoubtedly be pointing in the opposite direction.

Some of those on the right now say they were wrong, or that they miscalculated, or that the Bush administration has bungled what remains a noble effort. Others insist the war is not going all that badly, given the difficulty of bringing democracy to Iraq, and that history's verdict is not yet in.

But this is no high-minded debate about military strategy and ancient religious hatreds. It is an old-fashioned smackdown by those who detest George W. Bush against those who once defended him.

Andrew Sullivan, the author and blogger, wrote in Time that he and his fellow neoconservatives made "three huge errors" in underestimating the difficulty of invading Iraq three years ago this week. "We have learned a tough lesson," Sullivan wrote, "and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis and several thousand killed and injured American soldiers than for a few humiliated pundits."

This drew a blast from Paul Krugman, the liberal New York Times columnist, who wrote: "Mr. Sullivan used to specialize in denouncing the patriotism and character of anyone who dared to criticize President Bush, whom he lionized. Now he himself has become a critic, not just of Mr. Bush's policies, but of his personal qualities, too. . . .

"If you're a former worshipful admirer of George W. Bush who now says, as Mr. Sullivan did at Cato, that 'the people in this administration have no principles,' you're taking a courageous stand. If you said the same thing back when Mr. Bush had an 80 percent approval rating, you were blinded by Bush-hatred. If you're a former hawk who now concedes that the administration exaggerated the threat from Iraq, you're to be applauded for your open-mindedness. But if you warned three years ago that the administration was hyping the case for war, you were a conspiracy theorist."... http://tinyurl.com/q25tq
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