By VictorM: Some of the Republicans who have enabled the most corrupt, incompetent, and partisan administration ever seen to be having second thoughts. Too bad it's happening now, after the damage is done. Of course we all know about Colin Powell shameful behavior leading up to the Iraq invasion and occupation, but he's not alone.

General Pace has done some second guessing:

One of the mistakes I made in my assumptions going in was that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi army would welcome liberation, that the Iraqi army, given the opportunity, would stand together for the Iraqi people and be available to them to help serve the new nation," said Pace, who will leave the chairman's job on Oct. 1. "If I knew that the Iraqi army was not going to be available, then I probably would have made a different recommendation about the total size force going in.

Alan Greenspan is also pointing out things he should have known back then:

Mr. Greenspan, who calls himself a "lifelong libertarian Republican," writes that he advised the White House to veto some bills to curb "out-of-control" spending while the Republicans controlled Congress. He says President Bush's failure to do so "was a major mistake." Republicans in Congress, he writes, "swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

For comic relief we even have Newt Gingrich saying this:

Gingrich, who represented Georgia for 20 years, indicated that a push he is making for a grass-roots change in how the country is governed, with less partisanship, would take at least five years to develop into a coherent alternative to the current system.

As Kos says: "Newt invented the harsh brand of partisanship that currently exists in our politics."