When it’s right to be wrong

Slate recently asked several high profile bloggers to comment on the fifth anniversary of Bush’s nightmare in Iraq and reflect on what they got wrong at the outset.

One of the better reads comes from Andrew Sullivan, who analyzes four fundamental errors in depth.

I think my favorite has to be by my friend John Cole at Balloon Juice who rather bluntly declares:

I was wrong about EVERY. GOD. DAMNED. THING. It is amazing I could tie my shoes in 2001-2004. If you took all the wrongness I generated, put it together and compacted it and processed it, there would be enough concentrated stupid to fuel three hundred years of Weekly Standard journals.

Ok….tell us how you really feel John.

But a lot of us REALLY underestimated the duplicity of the Bush administration.  Who’d have thunk they’d falsify intelligence.  Who’d have thunk they’d simply disregard international law, the US Constitution, and basic human decency?

Let’s hope we learned our less on well, and that after 2008 the national nightmare can end.

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