Brian Flemming on Putz's '03 whitewash.

Ouch (via Atrios).

Last week I issued a challenge to bloggers to write an entry called "What I was wrong about in March 2003" -- the month that the United States invaded Iraq, interrupting the ongoing U.N.-sanctioned inspections of that country for weapons of mass destruction.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com took the challenge...

His [Putz's] March 2003 archives are actually a parade of nonstop support for the war and demonization of all who favored inspections over invasion. Not that you would know this from Glenn's representation. He lists 20 links, many of which have little or nothing to do with the most important event that happened in March 2003, and none of which highlight the fundamental error Glenn made -- that he supported the war.

Reading Instapundit.com's archives of that month is like reading an alternate history, and I recommend checking it out for yourself (see weeks 1, 2, 3, 4). Here are some items that Glenn apparently overlooked when reviewing his March 2003 performance:

The alternate-reality March 2003 of Instapundit.com is one in which European countries with highly suspect motives were blind to the "smoking guns" that demonstrated Saddam's obvious possession of weapons of mass destruction; the corrupt and "lackadaisacal" inspections process was "bogus" because it couldn't find those WMD; here at home rampaging "pro-Saddam" demonstrators were beating the hell out of patriotic "pro-America" and "pro-liberation" demonstrators (by the way, the anti-war rallies were poorly attended while the pro-war movement was burgeoning); and the President had "a very real desire to avoid war," which represented "a 'window of opportunity' for democratizing the region."

And I didn't even get through all four weeks!

I really don't know who Putz thought he was fooling with that little charade. Flemming concludes,

My error was believing that the loudest proponents of the war actually cared whether they were right or wrong.

They didn't care then, and they don't care now.

But at least I'm not surprised.

I think Putz might want to disable his "search" feature if he's going to pull a Winston Smith in the future.