Iraq: Mea Culpa from some on the Left

Via Austin Bay, Oliver Kamm in the leftist Guardian, "We were right to invade Iraq:

The absence of WMD was a huge intelligence failure; so it is fortunate that we are no longer reliant on Saddam’s word. As Professor Graham Pearson, of the Bradford University school of peace studies, has written, focusing on stockpiles is misconceived: “In an aggressor state, there is no requirement to have such stockpiles as the national strategy is not one of having an ability to retaliate in kind but rather … to use chemical and biological weapons at a time of its choosing.” Saddam did possess dual-use facilities that, according to Charles Duelfer of the Iraq Survey Group, could quickly have produced chemical and biological weapons.

And mea culpa from David Aaronovitch in The Times about not acting to stop Slobodan Milosevic, the "Butcher of the Balkans", here:

If Bosnia was the betrayal through inaction and appeasement, Srebrenica the consequence and Kosovo the determination not to let it happen again, then the line runs clear. And if Milosevic, far from being someone we could do business with, was in fact an opportunistic tyrant who played us for fools until we saw the light, then what was Saddam?