What Atrios says!

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Wanted to be Wrong

"I spent a few minutes going over my archives to examine just what I wrote and when I wrote it regarding the Iraq adventure. I was surprised by something -- I clearly remembered being against this thing, but I was surprised by how sure I was that the whole justification was crap early on. I think I've heard too many people say something along the lines of "well, everyone thought he had WMD!" Apparently, I didn't.

There's no joy in being right about this administration's current and inevitable future failure in Iraq. I wrote as much many times - PLEASE LET ME BE WRONG. The truth is, I was wrong, but in the other direction. Even this partisan hack Bush-hater had absolutely no clue just how incompetent the people in charge could be. I had little expectations of their competence, but I had no idea that my worst nightmares would morph into my most optimistic dreams.

Today, I have to say the people I'm still angry at were those "serious centrists" who contributed to the effort to marginalize all anti-war voices by labelling them as the fringe. Exhibit A in all of this was Salon's Michelle Goldberg,(todays Salon piece) who in her most recent article finds someone to continue to perpetuate this basic idea -- those who were against the war were fringe nutters. -- even as polls showed majority opposition to this war, one without UN approval at least, proved that idea wrong.

I'm a partisan hack, but I'm basically just an angry centrist. There are few if any issues I would consider myself to be on the "fringe" of. People like Golberg did their best to portray the anti-war movement as a bunch of loonies.

Screw them".
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