They've removed their rose-colored glasses and seen the stark reality of the iminent potential for Saddam's attacking the rest of the planet, starting with Israel.
They see the slippery slope that Saddam is sliding on, hand in hand with Scott Ritter and whoever's left in Al Qaeda.
1. Cowardice. When they wrote this stuff in '97, they knew there was no chance these actions would be taken.
2. Notoriety. When you're a consultant going for the big bucks, there's no profit in saying what everybody else is saying. The big money comes from going against the flow.
S(l)ick Willie, DemonRAT Maximus Gluteus Maximus, who was in power in '97 and who had to distract, delay and hopefully derail impeachment in November '98 (when he got El Diablo D'Ashole and Little Dick Gimphardt to run back to Congress to support action in Iraq as long as it was done before Ramadan), is no longer in power.