You CANNOT make this shit up.

Brace yourself. No, really, I mean it. Ready? OK, here you go:

Iraq is not a Conservative War

Let’s get one thing straight. The invasion of Iraq was not carried out by conservatives. The assumptions underpinning the liberation of Iraq, particularly that Iraqis would take advantage of the fall of Saddam to embrace their own freedom and build democratic institutions, were profoundly liberal and optimistic.

You can read the rest if you want but, trust me, it doesn't get any better.

NOTHING UP MY SLEEVE ... PRESTO! Notice, if you will, how smoothly Spanky moves the goalposts in the above. First, he makes the mind-boggling claim that "The invasion of Iraq was not carried out by conservatives." How anyone could suggest this with a straight face is beyond me, given that the invasion was proposed, planned and implemented by American neo-conservatives, against the advice of numerous liberals and even against the advice of some of the military commanders involved.

And yet ... and yet ... somehow, Spanky denies this in its entirety. How exactly does he propose to defend this bizarre scenario? Ah ...

The assumptions underpinning the liberation of Iraq, particularly that Iraqis would take advantage of the fall of Saddam to embrace their own freedom and build democratic institutions, were profoundly liberal and optimistic.

Notice how, in the space of a single sentence, Spanky has gone from who actually "carried out" the invasion to whose philosophical and/or ideological underpinnings were ultimately responsible for it.

My, but that's a clever trick. I'll remember that weaselly technique the next time a "liberal" commits some heinous crime but claims that it was their belief in the Bible that drove them to it. At least we'll know who's really responsible. Right, Spanky?