THE WORDLY WISDOM(?) OF WILLIAM KRISTOL
May 20, 2015
"We were right to invade Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein, and to complete the job we should have finished in 1991.
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March 1, 2003
"Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president."
February 20, 2003
"If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world."
November 21, 2002
[removing Saddam] "would start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy"
September 18, 2002 column
[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects throughout the Middle East"
Wrong then; wrong now. Maybe it is the unbearable weight of those hundreds of thousands of unnecessary death for which he must bear some good measure of responsibility that makes him cling so desperately to his past errors.
Then again, maybe he is just an astoundingly myopic ideologue, entranced by his own ignorance and beguiled by the fact that people will listen or publish whatever drivel pops into his head.