>Before the war, for example, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
>accused the administration of exaggerating Iraq's nuclear capabilities,
>while other Democrats questioned whether Bush and Secretary of State Colin
>L. Powell were overstating Hussein's chemical and biological stockpiles.
>
>This week, Pelosi said it is "difficult to understand" why the weapons
>can't be found. Yet she did not seem concerned about whether any are
>found. "I am sort of agnostic on it; that is to say, maybe they are
>there," Pelosi said. "I salute the president for the goal of removing
>weapons of mass destruction."
>
>Similarly, Senate Democratic Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), who on the
>eve of war accused Bush of failing "miserably" to win international
>backing, now talks of giving the president "great credit" for winning the
>war.
Cue to Nathan to tell us why these are robustly progressive stances.
Doug