The Lancaster Progressive

From Kevin Drum, February 2003, via Atrios, via Sadly, No!, the most telling, condemning, and indicative blogpost in history:

Unlike, say, during the Tonkin Gulf incident, this administration is under intense scrutiny. There’s enormous distrust of what they say, and they know it. They won’t get the free pass that LBJ did.

What’s more, they know that everything they say is easily verifiable once the war starts. No one ever pressed LBJ for proof of what happened in the Tonkin Gulf, but there will be dozens of countries and dozens more NGOs who will be looking very closely at what we find in Iraq after ground forces move in. It will hardly be possible to fake vast numbers of mobile weapons labs, swimming pools of anthrax, ballistic missiles, and the like, and if those things aren’t found in substantial and convincing quantities George Bush will be lucky to escape impeachment, let alone win reelection.

Not only did he escape impeachment, and not only was he re-elected,  but his supporters at the CPAC this week were heard to chant “Four More Years!” I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.