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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: SirRealist who wrote (90188)4/5/2003 10:34:05 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
I've been reading the pessimistic view here for months. 500 thousand dead civilian casualties, thousands upon thousands of American and British casualties, urban warfare at an unimaginable level, Turkey clashing with the Kurds, heat decapitating our troops, chemical and biological weapons unleashed against our troops and the Iraqi people, oil fires in the thousands, terrorism unleashed against American cities, dams destroyed flooding the river systems, starvation and the entire region spirralling out of control into chaos and warfare.

None of these things have happened! So it's time to finally say once and for all. Pessimists have no special hold on reality or accurate predictions. They have been routinely wrong by a profound margin of error. However, like a dead clock they may be right twice a day sometime in the future.

That's about the extent of their accuracy.
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