Via Atrios, we find that Chris Matthiews is finally realizing the Iraq wasn't, in fact, payback for 9/11:

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "Well I am just going to stick to this point that the president led us in there with the background music of American culture. Everybody was led to believe that we were getting payback, we were avenging what happened on 9/11 and that we are going to get them."

That's why we're at war -- because we had to get them. It was fucking obvious from the start to anyone who cared to take a deep breath and think about it that this was irrational and bullshit.

I wonder, when will Mr. Matthiews begin to question and contemplate his own complicity in all this?