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The New Republic offers an apology for the Baghdad Diaries, which were a series of fabrications by Scott Beauchamp. They made our military look like psychopathic scum and perhaps inspired some Hollywood people to make movies nobody saw. The apology took them 14 pages of blather to get around to doing, which is a pathetic attempt to bore people into not reading the last paragraph. That’s the only one that mattered.

So skip to the comments. They’re the best part. It should be noted that many of the anti-war arguments have been shot down repeatedly because of the anti-war leaders’ blatant lies. They call Bush a liar, but undermine their own position by constantly trotting out one falsehood after another. Of course, when they’re caught lying, this causes them no shame. They just change the subject and keep it up.

When Fahrenheit 9/11 was revealed to be full of mendacity and deceptions, you didn’t see too many lefties disown it. Many of them may have stopped mentioning it as the “truth” just as many will probably stop citing An Inconvenient Truth as more of its deceptions and falsehoods come to light. But you still see the occasional peace-pimp citing it.

You would think, when caught in so many lies, that some of the left would question their arguments. Many things they claimed would happen if we went into Iraq haven’t. They didn’t start coming over here to blow things up. The quagmire argument seems to be dissipating fast.

Frankly, the Iraq War could be a moot point in a few years. If that long. But don’t expect any more apologies. 

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