Is this what the apocalypse looks like?

[JHB]

6. Careful! When Beck said "liberals were right", it was his imaginary liberals

From the beginning, most people on the left were against going into Iraq. I wasn’t. At the time I believed that the United States was under threat from Saddam Hussein. I really truly believed that Saddam Hussein was funding terrorists. We knew that. He was funding the terrorists in Hamas. We knew that he was giving money. We could track that. We knew he hated us. We knew that without a shadow of a doubt. It wasn’t much or a stretch to believe that he would fund a terror strike against us, especially since he would say that. So I took him at his word.
Now, in spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said: We shouldn’t get involved. We shouldn’t nation-build. And there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free. I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free. They said we couldn’t force freedom on people. Let me lead with my mistakes. You are right. Liberals, you were right. We shouldn’t have.

The "liberals" who said Iraqis didn't want to be free, the "liberals" who said that Iraqis weren't capable of democracy*.

In other words, the "liberals" of right-wing caricature during the full-court press to invade, not the actual liberals with actual reasons for opposing it.


*i.e., in the sense of inherently incapable, not in the realistic sense of some interests and antagonisms there that would be big honking impediments to democracy.