Frank Rich's "Iraq Everlasting: We are still stuck in 2003, and it isn't (only) George W. Bush's fault" (New York Magazine, June 4, 2014) is a laundry list, however partial, of those in "the liberal Establishment" who "enlisted in the stampede" that would slaughter many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in the next decade.
Rich's list begins with Senate Democrats — Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry — and extends to those of "the so-called liberal media, much of which cheered on [George W. Bush's] war with a self-righteous gravity second only to Dick Cheney's."
The list covered "the East Coast liberal media cabal," as Bill Keller, the New York Times op-ed writer whom Rich quotes, put it in his column "The I-Can't-Believe-I'm-a-Hawk Club" (N.Y. Times, Feb 8, 2003). The self-disbelieving members of the "hawk club" were "op-ed regulars at this newspaper and The Washington Post, the editors of The New Yorker, The New Republic and Slate, columnists in Time and Newsweek."