Memories can be beautiful--and yet

FAIR takes the occasion of the third anniversary of our very first corner in Iraq to catalog some of the many pundits who got it wrong--smugly, willfully, gleefully, myopically, pedantically, or cluelessly, but always wrong--from Day One.

You can pick your favorites; here are a few of mine:

"We're all neo-cons now."
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)

"Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated so far.... The final word on this is, hooray."
(Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke, 4/12/03)

"Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?"
(Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes, 4/25/03)

(This item has been sitting in my To Do file for a couple of days; thanks to The Skirt for the nudge.)