Friedman. Beinart. Zakaria. RadarOnline dissects the hawkish pre-invasion positions of these (allegedly) leftist pundits, showing how they were not just wrong, but french-kissing-your-mother-in-law, MilliVanilli-Emmy wrong on every fucking utterance. But the kicker is Radar's exposure of their post-invasion career success. Quite simply, they're selling the blood on their hands for top dollar.
If you want a serious, analytical discussion, head over to Toadvine's excellent diary on the same article. (It slipped off the list before I could rec it, Toadvine, you horse thieving killer.) This diary is little more than a rant.
Friedman's pre-debacle speaking fees were around 40k, but now they're 65k. Maybe it's just adjusted for inflation, you know, like my salary was in the last 3 years. A 50%+ cost of living allowance. Despite the fact that he KNEW the war was a war of choice, that it would be disastrous if it failed, despite recognizing that everything Bushco touched turned to horseshit, he still supported the war. Why? Because "something in Mr. Bush's audacious shake of the dice appeals to me," he wrote. He supported it because it was a ballsy gamble and he likes ballsy gamblers. And besides, the bet didn't risk his $9M mansion in Bethesda or his Aspen chateau. Hell, call or fold, the gamble would make him and his friends richer anyway, and no one he knew or loved would be getting shot at. Gamble away, you crazy Gambler in Chief! You BrassBalls Surger, you!
Zakaria is famous for being a Muslim Hawk (unless he's on the Daily Show, where he transforms into a Bush basher par excellence). Radar reveals he was invited by Paul Fucking Wolfowitz to a 2001 meeting to come up with a plan to sell the war. He was in the bedroom when the "mushroom cloud" bullshit was conceived!
Peter Beinart, despite being dead-ass wrong about everything he said related to the invasion and occupation, now has a columnist gig at the WaPo and is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ah, to live in the bizarro world of DC elites, where dumbfuckery is rewarded and you get promoted for being demonstrably stupid.
Oh, yeah, and there's a good entry on Huffpost today about the same problem: continued rewards in the form of airtime given to war-mongering retards who everyone knows were 100%, head-in-armpit wrong! Why do these bastards still have a microphone?? I don't even know who to be mad at.