What if I've been wrong about W?

[hot_pastrami]

I saw an article recently which posed the question "What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along?" It's a nice little piece by a "skeptic" which suggests that perhaps Bush's ends (a vote in Iraq) justifies his means (an unprovoked, unjustified attack on a sovereign nation which posed no threat to us, nor was it even close to being the worst human rights offender). I found that particular brand of tripe to be unswallowable.

There is much evidence that voter turnout was due to coersion. The country is far from safe, and thousands of men, women and children have died. That's to say nothing of the castration of our civil liberties here at home, the prisoners tortured and imprisoned indefinitely without trial...

If you had a low opinion of W, I'd say you weren't wrong. He earned it. I am absolutely not suggesting that nothing good has come of this war, but the bufoonery of the execution has made the price far dearer than it needed to be.