Fukuyama changes his mind

Francis Fukuyama has demonstrated that occasionally even people on the right think for themselves, unlike those like Charles Krauthammer, who never thinks, just gets his White House memo and rushes to his computer to write another column.
Here's what Fukuyama has to say after he has been vilified by the Krauthammers:

"SEVEN WEEKS AGO, I published my case against the Iraq war. I wrote that although I had originally advocated military intervention in Iraq, and had even signed a letter to that effect shortly after the 9/11 attacks, I had since changed my mind.

"But apparently this kind of honest acknowledgment is verboten. In the weeks since my book came out, I've been challenged, attacked and vilified from both ends of the ideological spectrum. From the right, columnist Charles Krauthammer has accused me of being an opportunistic traitor to the neoconservative cause — and a coward to boot. From the left, I've been told that I have 'blood on my hands' for having initially favored toppling Saddam Hussein and that my "apology" won't be accepted.

"For the record, I did change my mind, but in the year preceding the war — not after the invasion."

(The complete Fukuyama response}