Reply #12: T. Friedman was a guy who basically [View All]

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

supported the Iraq invasion from the preinvasion propaganda runup period. (If you DU'ers can remember that period the Faux RW'ers would even challenge people calling it an "invasion", it was "liberation", as if you can call sending your army across the oceans down someone's throat anything else) I would sum up his positions as the "Right War for the Wrong Reasons". (I think he even has a column with this title.)

Even during the prewar propaganda phase (and certainly since the invasion) he has basically acknowledged the falsity and emptiness of "WMD". But he did and still subscribes to the "Democracy Dominos in the Middle East" theory of conquering Iraq. But he has backed off his initial gung ho-ism a little, still supporting the war but acknowledging it hasn't gone particularly well and that we are at a critical point with high potential for a huge flameout.

Here's a pretty good page with a bunch of archived articles.

http://www.drumbeat.mlaterz.net/Op-Ed/Archives%20Op-Ed%20List%20Page%2002a.htm