...at the thought that many of these people truly believed that this day would never come--that the Iraqi people perhaps didn't like Saddam, but they would never welcome the Evil Amerikkkans (TM) as liberators. They must have been sincere in such a belief, or they would never have set themselves up to look like the fools that they are.

Looking at pictures of weeping and cheering Iraqi men kissing pictures of George Bush has to be Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle's (not to mention George Galloway, Michael Moore, and countless others) biggest nightmare come true.

Janeane Garofalo told O'Reilly that if this day came, she'd come back on the Factor and apologize. I hope Bill's got a nice fricasee of crow on the burner, but I doubt if she'll keep her word.

[Update at 4:11 PM PDT]

Someone at Free Republic dug up the transcript:

O'REILLY: If you are wrong? and if the United States - and they will, this is going to happen - goes in, liberates Iraq [with] people in the street, American flags, hugging our soldiers? you gonna apologize to George W. Bush?

GARAFALO [sic]: I would be so willing to say, "I'm sorry". I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say, "You were wrong. You were a fatalist". And I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, "Hey, you and Thomas Friedman were right? I shouldn't have doubted you?"

Better strap on the knee pads, Buffoon.

I thought "kneepads" and "White House" stopped being used in the same context three years ago...

I'm not holding my breath that any of this, even the "I'm sorry", will ever happen. If it does, she'll find some "but" to interject into whatever pseudo-apology she comes up with. "I thought it would be a military disaster and it wasn't BUT we have yet to see whether it will be humanitarian disaster." "The liberated Iraqis did in fact cheer us, BUT, how long will that last before the reality of occupation sets in?" That sort of thing.

Interesting that an important part of the question asked by O'Reilly is missing. Here is the full question:
?If you are wrong, all right, and if the United States ? and they will, this is going to happen ? goes in, liberates Iraq, people in the street, American flags, hugging our soldiers, all right, we find all kinds of bad, bad stuff, all right, in Iraq, you gonna apologize to George W. Bush??

Now, "bad, bad stuff" is rather vague, but considering that the reason given by Bush, et.al. that we were invading is that Saddam was hiding all sorts of nasty WMDs, it is reasonable to assume that this is the "bad, bad stuff" that O'Reilly was referring to.

Last time I checked, NO "bad, bad stuff" had been found.

Moreover, while we have been welcomed by some, I wouldn't call the daily shootings and bombings of American soldiers in Iraq exactly a case of the "Welcome Wagon".

Believe me, I hate to admit that Janeane was right and I was wrong (and fooled by our government). But the she was and has nothing whatsover to apologize for. And it is time that our government (and those who want to act like she was in the wrong) admit it.