Getting It Straight with the Wrong-Headed Right

by SusanG
Thu Mar 23, 2006 at 01:43:15 PM PDT

What I need from the conservatives who were wrong is this:

A statement, a simple statement, that they were wrong and we were right. Period. Not that Bush incompetently executed a terrific idea, but that the idea itself was wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. As wrong as you can get. You simply cannot force democracy on another nation at gunpoint. Period.

It doesn't matter that you don't like the messenger, that you wish he or she were less shrill or not fat or not given to making documentaries or standing in ditches or previously criticizing Bush on other issues from the pages of the New York Times. None of that matters. Those messengers were right. You were wrong. Period. Have the decency to say it, once and for all, and we can move on.