With the announcement that a number of pro-Sunni parties were planning on boycotting the upcoming Iraqi election, http://www.juancole.com/2004/11/election-boycott-announced-forty-seven.html">the chattering classes declared democracy DOA in Iraq.
Six months later, of course, the boycott was a shambles, with Sunni clerics issuing a fatwa requiring participation in the democratic process.
PRE-DATED on 7/7/05
The Democrats jumped on claims that 400 tons of Saddam's explosives had been pilfed - right before the election, natch.
Of course, the "controversy" turned out to be...not a controversy
POSTDATED from 7/5/05
October 17, 2003 - the left has the vapors over General William Boykin, an evangelical Christian who also happens to be one of the nation's top special forces officers. The LA Times went to some bizarre contortions to break the story, and stsretched journalitic ethics to the breaking point to do it.
POST-DATED from 07/06/05.
It was illegal to kill the Hussein brothers, Uday and Qusay!
PREDATED from 07/06/05
The left stuffed themselves, rhetorically, to the point where they spent the rest of 2003 lying on the metaphorical couch with their rhetorical zippers open with the rumor that the President, on a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Baghdad, had been photographed carrying a plastic turkey among the GIs.
Of course, it was a lie; the turkey was the "Show Turkey", a perfect-looking real bird used more as a centerpiece than as an entree. It's not an uncommon practice at big institutional meals (and what is an Army mess but the biggest, institutionalest meal of all?).
To put it in Democrat terms - Not Fake, but Accurate.
PRE-DATED from 7/5/05