Reasons to Be Mean to the Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt, Part MCCXXXIII:
Back in the winter of 2003, when Europeans–serious Europeans–smart Europeans–establishment Europeans–submitted op-eds to the Washington Post saying “let the weapons inspectors in Iraq do their work,” Fred Hiatt rejected them. Fred Hiatt rejected them, telling at least one:
We do not need criticism [of the Bush administration]. The decision [to attack Iraq] has been made. We have to get behind it, and deal with the world as it is, and not as we wish it would be.
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