A hopeful signal. In today’s Washington Post:

Although given little public credit at the time, or since, many of the 126 House Democrats who spoke out and voted against the October 2002 resolution that gave President Bush authority to wage war against Iraq have turned out to be correct in their warnings about the problems a war would create.

With the Democrats taking over control of the House next January, the views that some voiced during two days of debate four years ago are worth recalling, since many of those lawmakers will move into positions of power. They include not only members of the new House leadership but also the incoming chairmen of the Appropriations, Armed Services, Budget and Judiciary committees and the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Of course, what I’d really like to see is a national forum on the absolute travesty called “media reporting” about the war, including looking at how papers like The Washington Post gave very little credence to the very opponents that they now acknowledge were right.