There should be a rule for everyone who wants to comment on Iraq in 2014. Show what you were saying in 2002 and 2003. If you were supporting the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq then, STFU now. The headline on this Paul Waldman post in the Washington Post's The Plum Line sums it up a bit more nicely but still succinctly, "On Iraq, let’s ignore those who got it all wrong".
As you watch the debate on this issue, you should remind yourself that the most prominent voices being heard are the very ones who brought us the Iraq War in the first place, who promised that everything was simple and the only question was whether we’d be “strong” and “decisive” enough — the same thing they’re saying today. They’re the ones who swore that Saddam was in cahoots with Al Qaeda, that he had a terrifying arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, that the war would be quick, easy and cheap, that since Iraq was a largely secular country we wouldn’t have to worry about sectarian conflict, and that democracy would spread throughout the region in short order, bringing peace and prosperity along with it.
Yes, I do have a written record of opposing the war on posts I put on my old personal web site, which will be readily reachable once my web host gets its head out of its a---nyway, maybe that's what the reality-based community needs to do. When we comment, link to something we wrote back then, and challenge the neocons to do the same. So I found a way to link directly to one thing I wrote before the invasion,
Bush's credibility problem on Iraq. I'm not suggesting anything written then is helpful now, except that it does establish who was right at the time, and who helped bring about disaster and therefore now needs to shut up.
cross-posted at MN Progressive Project