It looks like Kristol was wrong on his second New York Times piece:

Kristol in his column, which hailed the success of the “surge” in Iraq, concluded with this trump card: Now the Iraqi government has agreed on de-Baathification, a key gain that proves his point and pretty much destroys the Democrats’ stand.

But now at www.nytimes.com comes a kind of corrective from the paper’s Solomon Moore in Baghdad. It opens:

“A day after the Iraqi Parliament passed legislation billed as the first significant political step forward in Iraq after months of deadlock, there were troubling questions — and troubling silences — about the measure’s actual effects.

I bet they are just thrilled that they hired him.