Nobody who was right about the war will ever be forgiven for it. See Kevin Drum, or much more annoyingly, Megan McArdle:
This has not convinced me of the brilliance of the doves, because precisely none of the ones that I argued with predicted that things would go wrong in the way they did.
I don't know who she was arguing with. But it wasn't Digby:
I predicted a week ago that the neocon hawks would not give up this fight and they certainly have not. They are zealots and they will do whatever is necessary to advance their cause. According to the Washington Post that includes lying to the President and the public about intelligence and military preparedness.
This is the most dangerous thing I believe we've learned recently. They are underestimating the costs, both financially and militarily, to accomplish their goal of overthrowing Saddam and completely ignoring the subsequent costs of occupation. This betrays a form of magical thinking that will lead this country into graver trouble than we have ever seen. It's one thing to coldly and pragmatically propose an invasion. It's quite another to rely on wishful thinking to accomplish the task.
These people are starting to believe their own lies.
That (1) there was a lot of neocon bullshit being thrown around, and (2) the occupation was being utterly ignored or discussed in fairytale scenarios was always pretty damn obvious. Yeah -- it was all "magical thinking." This wasn't hard to figure out, really -- it's just that pretty much the only people saying this back then were really shut out of public debate to an extreme degree. Hell, there was never any "debate" about the merits of the Iraq war. There was just madness, and a hideous sense that the war was on, no matter fucking what. One of the nadirs of American history.
The key point though, is that the case for war never made any sense at all.
Also, Atrios was probably right that Digby needed to get a blog.