History will not be kind

It's a shame that history, like hell, often waits for the guilty to fade off into their undisturbed lives, rarely affecting their insane actions.

Another good post over at Balloon Juice illustrates how the blame is playing Duck-Duck-Goose around the circular firing squad in the 'Let's Go Topple A Regime' crowd.

Seriously. For all those who actually supported the invasion, what in the world were you thinking? Look at just some of those involved:

George W. Bush
Richard Perle
Paul Wolfowitz
Ahmad Chalabi
Henry Kissinger

Can anyone have known these guys' backgrounds and walked away thinking, 'oh, sure, they can be trusted to wield the mightiest military force in history and then be politically and socially savvy enough to shape a nation whose history has consisted solely of Western manipulation followed by strong dictatorships into a functioning democracy?' If you think they had a snowball's chance, add some motivated and charismatic terrorists to the mix and rethink it.

It's a shame that only history will be their judge.

UPDATE: I forgot to include Donald Rumsfeld in that list above - in spite of his historical ineptitude and arrogance, he's utterly forgettable.