Can You Forgive Them? - Ostracizing the people who were right on Iraq. By Timothy�Noah: "It began with Ritter saying, 'Iraq today represents a threat to no one,' which, Hayes opined, was an argument only Tariq Aziz would make. Three years later, of course, Ritter's assessment seems sound (assuming it did not include people then living inside Iraq), and Hayes' characterization seems idiotic."