Norm has written a candid post on why he's changed his mind about the invasion of Iraq:
I am bound to acknowledge that, though I never expected an easy sequel in Iraq, much less a "cakewalk", I did not anticipate a failure on this scale, and had I done so, I would have withheld support for the war without giving my voice to the opposition to it.
I feel much the same way. Would I see things differently if the chemical and bio stockpiles - which I was confident did exist - had turned up? Possibly. But that's more than hypothetical. As for the consequences for the transatlantic alliance, William Rees-Mogg's assessment could hardly be gloomier:
Just as General Dannatt has cautioned that the Army could be broken in Iraq, so we must face the danger that the alliance could be broken. The Bush Administration has treated the US-UK alliance with supercilious negligence, if not with outright arrogance. As a result, the United States is more unpopular in Britain than at any time in my life. This needs to be put right, and it can be put right only by frank consultation.
But is anyone in Washington - on either side of the aisle - really paying any attention? I have my doubts.