[AmericanChef]

Well, that tears it! If I'd known what Gerry was thinking I NEVER would've supported the war in Iraq. Um...sure.

I can envision hoards of lefties ripping off their old "Wellstone!" stickers and replacing them with "What Would Gerry Do?"

Oh - the world has suddenly turned upside down!/sarc

[Patrick1]

Not so fast my friends.

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A Different Take on Ford and the Iraq War: While Bob Woodward says that the late President Gerald Ford told him he was against the war in Iraq, Thomas DeFrank @ NY Daily News reports otherwise: “Ford was a few weeks shy of his 93rd birthday as we chatted for about 45 minutes. He’d been visited by President Bush three weeks earlier and said he’d told Bush he supported the war in Iraq but that the 43rd President had erred by staking the invasion on weapons of mass destruction.”

[Austin Willard Wright]

the world has suddenly turned upside down.

This statement is closer to the truth than you think. Back in 2003, the Wilsonians on FR were dismissing the insurgents as just a bunch of holdouts who were taking potshots (and would soon disappear) or would lose heart once Saddam was captured, pooh poohed the possiblity of sectarian violence, predicted that the the Iraqi war would "pay for itself" via oil, predicated that the toppling of Saddam would set off a rapid democratic revolution in the Middle East, predicted that the Iraqis wanted freedom and democracy (they elected Shi'ite fundamentalists instead) etc. The evidence is in. All these predictions were wrong. The Wilsonians were right and those who opposed getting into this quagmire were right.

[Austin Willard Wright]

that is "the Wilsonians were wrong"