The 'Hey, Maybe Bush Was Right' Meme

I'm certain I'm not alone in having long suspected that certain of our more leftish brethren would rather see us fail in Iraq than face the prospect of giving George W. Bush any credit for anything good. The fallout from the Iraqi elections has the 'progressives' facing just such a quandry. Here, for your amusement, is a collection of links:

• An editorial from syndicated columnist Mark Brown
• A student at the University of Miami
• A very hesitant, qualification-full, itty-bitty concession from the International Herald Tribune
• Fareed Zakaria's sunny report after months of gloom and doom forecasting
  
• Kurt Anderson has perhaps the best piece of the bunch. This is a gem:
  Each of us has a Hobbesian choice concerning Iraq; either we hope for the vindication of Bush�s risky, very possibly reckless policy, or we are in a de facto alliance with the killers of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. We can be angry with Bush for bringing us to this nasty ethical crossroads, but here we are nonetheless.