Well, Air, I certainly remember this.
Of all the "dead certain" folks that KNEW "it was a deliberate spin to sell America on an invasion", that KNEW there absolutely were no WMD at all..... and there was a fairly large group of these folks........
NONE of those wanted to take up a small wager of AH time on whether or not WMD would be found. NONE. You were in those threads and you didn't take the wager, for example.
Nash, who I don't put in that camp, took up the wager and I think if you look up his posts from that time you'll find he wasn't certain at all.
He had this to say at that time:
I didn't see the thread where the clock had started... but I assume it goes for our wager also Toad (or whenever u want)?
As far as I'm concerned, *everyone* was going on guesses. Due to that, bragging about any which way this turned out (and will turn out) is absurd.
"I was right, you were wrong" is the same as saying "Gee aint I smart - neither of us had any information, but I made a better guess than you". So I think it's silly to see or do any bragging on it.
Hindsight. A handy thing for the "winners" of the WMD argument because they can brag they were right. A handy thing for the losers because it forces reflection.
I admit my belief turned out to be incorrect. It wasn't because I was in some vast right wing conspiracy to sell America on an invasion. It was because all I had read, the people I had talked to directly, people I had worked with in Recon led me to the conclusion SH had WMD.
So, I accept that I was wrong. I've been wrong before. I've also said here that if it can be shown that Bush
deliberately lied or doctored intel, that he should be prosecuted. I also feel that since we made the mess, we've got to clean it up. I realize that's going to cost both blood and treasure.
But what's done is done. I can't deny what I said, I admit I turned out to be wrong. Not much more that I can do in that arena. I've turned my efforts to towards other areas as my atonement.