Revisionism

It's now becoming vogue for powerful people to chide the "coalition" for its failure to produce any Iraqi WMD -- Vladimir Putin's jabs at Tony Blair being the latest example. Explicit in these chidings is the truism that the finding of Iraqi WMD would "justify the conflict". (Or, as the Los Angeles Times opined on April 30: "Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction is central to the legitimacy of the war.")

But these same taunters -- and much of the domestic anti-war movement -- were opposed to the war, even while they accepted that Saddam and his weapons posed a major "threat" to world peace. If the Europeans' "anti-war" position was racist and hypocritical before the war, it's even more cynical now.

What are they going to do if WMD are found, come groveling at Dubya's feet? A laugh-a-minute, those European heads of state.

Posted by Eddie Tews at April 30, 2003 02:09 PM