The Inevitability of Bush's "Vindication"

I'm fairly sure I've harped on this before...but you do realize that Bush will inevitably be declared to have been vindicated, right?

Let's say that things miraculously turn around in a week or a year or...five years. At that point, conservatives will proclaim that Bush was right all along, and that the invasion was sage policy. No matter how torturous and unpredictable the route that eventually leads the Iraqis out of chaos, Bush's supporters will claim that that's what he meant to do all along. Like the kid on the playground whose wildly errant shot takes three wild bounces off nearby buildings and cars and then, miraculously, drops through the hoop, the Bushies will claim that Bush meant to do that all along.

It may even take ten, twenty, thirty years...it may involve factors and mechanisms that no one even dreamt of taking into account in 2002...but no matter when or how it happens, they'll claim credit for it.

Though, of course, accepting none of the associated--and well-deserved--blame.

I just want you to be ready when this happens so you don't have an aneurism.

Because I care.