The great Walter Pincus, though not an editor, issues a belated mea culpa by implication in WaPo's name:

Although given little public credit at the time, or since [nice!], many of the 126 House Democrats who spoke out and voted against the October 2002 resolution that gave Bush authority to wage war against Iraq have turned out to be correct in their warnings about the problems a war would create.

With the Democrats taking over control of the House next January, the views that some voiced during two days of debate four years ago are worth recalling, since many of those lawmakers will move into positions of power. They include not only members of the new House leadership but also the incoming chairmen of the Appropriations, Armed Services, Budget and Judiciary committees and the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Hey, maybe then the people who were right will get to go on the teebee!

Naah. They're weren't "serious."

And Pincus does note the shameful coverage that these Cassandra's were given at the time. The very last paragraph of the story:

Lee was described as giving a "fiery denunciation" of the administration's "rush to war," with only 14 colleagues in the House chamber to hear her. None of the reasons she gave to justify her concerns, nor those voiced by other Democratic opponents, was reported in the two Post stories about passage of the resolution that day.

Our famously free press was beyond pitiful on this. Kudos to Walter Pincus for calling bullshit.

Are you listening, Bill Keller, you Bush-enabling piece of shit? Where's your mea culpa?

NOTE Via Atrios.