Walter Russell Mead: Remembering Iraq - '...once we were at war, even as it became ever more clear that the WMD weren't there, that the post-war situation was extremely challenging, and that the Bush administration did not know what to do in the situation in which it found itself, I continued to support -- as I still continue to support -- the American involvement in that war. Even as most of my Democratic friends and colleagues who originally supported the war turned against it, I continued to argue that we needed to stay the course. This was originally a very popular line of argument; as the war went on (and as the Bush administration continued to fumble with the war) this stand became less popular, but it seemed and seems to me that it was the right argument to make...' [Must read.]