Self-Flagellation On Iraq

Village chucklehead Joe Klein of Time Magazine abases himself before you and asks your forgiveness on Iraq in a rare piece where someone from the Village war machine actually takes some responsibility for getting us into a costly and deadly quagmire in Iraq while we were already in a costly and deadly quagmire in Afghanistan.

As for myself, I deeply regret that once, on television in the days before the war, I foolishly — spontaneously — said that going ahead with the invasion might be the right thing to do. I was far more skeptical in print. I never wrote in favor of the war and repeatedly raised the problems that would accompany it, but mere skepticism was an insufficient reaction too. The issue then was as clear as it is now. It demanded a clarity that I failed to summon. The essential principle is immutable: we should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

You get to live with that, Joe, hopefully for a very long time.  Thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will not get the chance to accept your apology, because they're no longer with us.

No offense, Joe.  But this is about 8 years too late.  Apology not accepted.  It was assholes like you that got us into this war and convinced others to support it.  You feel bad about this?  Resign from Time Magazine and go work for a non-profit to help our troops.  That's for starters.

Ass.  You will get no absolution from me, nor do you deserve it.