A woman just needs love and reassurance sometimes; that’s why I read Glenn Greenwald at Salon.

That's not a commercial advertisement for Salon, just a statement of appreciation of Greenwald’s article this morning chiding Tom Friedman (and Fred Hiatt, Charles Krauthammer) and other Iraq war cheerleaders.

Chickenhawks seem incapable of realizing that American foreign policy under Bush-Cheney (including that Iraq War thing) is more serious than mere “mistakes,” deserving of a "thumbs-down," as Friedman writes this morning.

From Greenwald’s column this morning on the “befuddled” Tom Friedman:

Friedman generously allows that ‘[a]n America that presides over Abu Ghraib, torture and Guantánamo Bay deserves a thumbs-down’ -- a ‘thumbs-down’: what a playful movie critic says about a boring film. In listing America's small imperfections that have caused this worldwide unpopularity, Friedman forgot to mention America's invasion and occupation of Iraq, which Friedman himself cheered on.

I mention reassurance in my lede facetiously because after participating in several peace marches in D.C. (that's me in the picture below) and Madison, along with millions of people worldwide, in vain efforts to prevent the Iraq War, the conclusion is inescapable that the peace movement was and is right, and Friedman and the war cheerleaders were and continue to be wrong.

I remember one February 2003 Madison march particularly well.

"Freezing for a reason," read one placard, as 1,000s of peace marchers demonstrated around the neighborhoods next to the Kohl Center during a nationally televised UW-Madison basketball game, in below-zero wind chills, as millions marched around the world.

But Bush and chickenhawks had made up their minds already.

So did Friedman and the chickenhawks, and don't bet on their admitting simple fact errors now; and take their advice on America’s position in the world with a large dose of salt.