When Iraq is finally recognized as lost

I imagine the right-wing will do what this Harper's article predicts and says we on the left, by criticizing Bush and his bungled occupation (continuing on after our criticism of the project to begin with) stabbed him in the back.

But I imagine a few thoughtful conservatives are eventually going to have to come to the conclusion that they just let Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and all the other enablers lie to them with impunity and with no accountability whatsoever.

For example:

One U.S. Army officer who is working on police and military training in Iraq, when asked about the prospect of a collapse of the Maliki government, responded in an email: “There's a Maliki government? Since when?” He went on: “Ultimately, I think the deterioration of the Baghdad security situation gives the lie to the U.S. effort. We've stood up X Iraqi army battalions and Y Iraqi police stations, and yet, Baghdad (and much of the contested provinces like Diyala and Anbar) continues to get worse.”