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Glowing Predictions About Iraq

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Witling

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The link below is from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. It contains many, many exerpts from news media commentators at the start of the Iraq war about how easy this was and how successful it would be. My personal favorite is:
Around the same time as Hume's speech, syndicated columnist Cal Thomas declared (4/16/03): "All of the printed and voiced prophecies should be saved in an archive. When these false prophets again appear, they can be reminded of the error of their previous ways and at least be offered an opportunity to recant and repent. Otherwise, they will return to us in another situation where their expertise will be acknowledged, or taken for granted, but their credibility will be lacking."
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Fairness & Accuracy site.
 
One of my fav's
I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego that military action will not last more than a week. Are you willing to take that wager?"
Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 1/29/03)
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as long as I don't have to eat with you billy boy. I want to keep my food down.
 
Somehow though I think if this had worked well, we'd end up doing the same in another country and perhaps running into trouble eventually regardless. Possibly.
 
Frackal, we don't seem to have learned much from Vietnam and I think it's pretty universally considered unsuccessful. I don't rely exclusively on the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, but he's pretty frank in calling post-paelolithic societies "kleptocracies." With the rise of property after hunter gatherers came the rise of theft and conquest. What America has yet to realize but Europe does realize is that the days of taking other people's property for yourself on an international scale are over. By the way, Diamond's book won the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Capa Award in science, and was a New York Times bestseller. My pre-war predictions were: This won't work; If we stay there 20 years we'll still be bringing home bodies in bags; and Iraq will break up into separate states. I haven't seen anything to change these opinions.
 

Funny 'cause the citizens of United States of Amnesia have already forgotten. The War Machine is chugging on with Iran as it's next target. We should just recycle the same speeches from 2003 to save everyone's time.
 
Originally posted by: Witling
Frackal, we don't seem to have learned much from Vietnam
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I've thought the same thing myself on occasion. Do you have any opinions into why this might be?

 
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