>FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>HEAD: Confessions of an anti-Iraq War Democrat
>By Lanny Davis, a prominent Washington lawyer and a political analyst for
>Fox News Channel. In 2007 and 2008, he made multiple appearances on cable TV
>in support of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. From 1996
>to 1998, he served as special counsel to President Clinton.
>I remember the exact moment I had my first serious doubts about whether I
>was 100 percent right that the U.S. pre-emptive invasion of Iraq and the
>take-out of Saddam Hussein was a serious mistake.
>I had been strongly opposed to the U.S. intervention from the start. I felt
>this way even though I believed (as did most everyone, including the
>intelligence community) that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and even
>though I thought that he was a murderous, genocidal thug and the world would
>be better off - and the U.S. safer - with him dead.
>However, I reasoned, the WMD inspectors were back in, and we had Saddam
>surrounded - thanks to George Bush, by the way, for which we Democrats did
>not give him sufficient credit at the time.
>So why risk the uncertainties of a pre-emptive invasion, loss of life and ...