Fast Forward

Redstate's Jeff Emanuel notes--with a shriek of gleeful triumph--the discovery of a cache of nitric acid in Iraq.

Why?

Here, let Mr. Emanuel tell you:

So, the bad guys are making chemical weapons in Iraq...chemical weapons are classified by the UN as WMDs...so there are WMDs in Iraq...wait. That can't be right. The reality-based community said they weren't.

Mr. Emanuel is correct. Opponents of the invasion of Iraq--the "reality-based community"--did indeed say exactly that.

Four years ago.

Nowhere in Mr. Emanuel's post, nor in the article he links, does it say that the nitric acid is part of a Saddam-era arsenal.

Perhaps Mr. Emanuel would have better luck trying to pin the blame for the nitric acid on the Iranians. Or the Syrians.

Or even Harry Reid.