my war gone by

...I miss it so. Pundit wall of shame.

"Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated so far.... The final word on this is, hooray."

via. I wonder if we could get together a British version? Relatedly, here’s the latest US poll on the conduct of the presidency:

The single word most frequently associated with George W. Bush today is "incompetent,"and close behind are two other increasingly mentioned descriptors: "idiot" and "liar." All three are mentioned far more often today than a year ago.

It’s a shame the word “dolt” has fallen out of general use. Incidentally, is the fact that European and US opinion on George Bush has never been so aligned further evidence of pathological anti-Americanism?

UPDATE: I mentioned British predictions. A corespondent e-mails with this:

Those Liberal Democrat predictions: An easy target, I know, but given that Shirley Williams complains that her party's warnings were "rubbished" before Tony Blair committed British troops to the liberation of Iraq, it's worth recalling that those prognostications were to a large degree, er, rubbish. Sue Doughty, MP for Guildford, still carries on her web site her pre-war assertion that,

"[Diplomacy] would be preferable to the huge loss of life for Iraqi civilians and our own servicemen and women that would be the inevitable result of war."

The number of British servicemen killed in the 21-day campaign was 31, while not even CND could come up with a figure for civilian deaths during the war that exceeded 1600 (and that came from a source that describes itself as "intensely political" and freely admits its inspiration from another polemicist whose tally of civilian deaths in Afghanistan was definitively exposed for double-counting)

That "intensely political" source was the Iraq Body Count, which has since developed more credibility in some pro-war quarters due to the fact that it undercounts when compared with the Lancet report.

Further comment would be superfluous, not to say exceptionally ungracious. Anyone out there got any more?

Comments

[Chris]

My favourite:

"We're all neo-cons now."
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)

It's the tyranny of the "we"!

[Alex]

Speaking of one's war going by, what am I going to do with my blog when it's all over?

[jamie]

KNitting? Kittens? No. We're all war nerds now...

[Alex]

Well, I did experiment with a little catblogging, but even the cat looks vaguely menacing.

Still, no sign that war is likely to run out any time soon. Just need to move on to another one...this is of course what was really meant by the Blogs of War.

[i hope you get cancer™]

Hitchens Watch has a gem.