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Matt Yglesias, January 14:

Suffice it to say, however, that the Bush administration wasn’t the first one to fib a bit about Iraq’s WMD programs.

A test of my premise – that “netroots” criticism of the Iraq war has been vociferous but conceptually narrow – will be the reaction to a Democratic-sanctioned military assault on Iran, North Korea, Syria, or some other fool place.

I look forward to be proven wrong.

That said, with the United States and Israel drifting in the direction of a disastrous Iran policy Edwards is rather clearly choosing not to push against the drift. How much of this is political expediency and how much is convictions?

We’re about to see a big reshuffling in domestic politics. A lot of the Democrats who were perfectly fine with Clinton’s dishonest bombing of Iraq (because the real outrage was the special prosecutor) and outraged by Bush’s Iraq war are going to have to pick sides in what Bob Dole might call a “Democrat war".

My fear is that people on the left who join with Republicans to oppose such a war will be declared “Wanker of the Day".

Like Sawicky, I hope to be proven wrong.