In from the cold

A critic of the Iraq war, Richard Gwyn of the Toronto Star, has come in from the cold. His piece, titled "Admit it: Bush was right on Iraq" can be found here. (registration required, it's free).
Here's the money quote:

"Here it is time to set down in type the most difficult sentence in the English language. That sentence is short and simple. It is this: Bush was right.
President George W. Bush wasn't right to invade Iraq. His justifications for doing so were (almost all of them) either frivolous, in comparison to the scale of the venture, or were outright fraudulent.
Having conquered Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein, Bush and his officials and generals then made every blunder that could be imagined by an occupying power, adding several original ones of their own.
But on the defining, fundamental question, Bush was right.
He understood that to defeat an idea, no matter how perverse and brutal it might be, it was necessary to have an opposite and superior idea.
He understood, in other words — instinctively rather than intellectually — that the only way to win a war against terrorism was to turn it into a war for democracy."

Not exactly an unqualified endorsement, but any time someone on the left sees the light, I'll take it.