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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (49741)5/10/2004 9:11:45 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Elmat predicted (Mar 30, 2003 <<This is a My Lai kind of situation waiting to happen!!>>) Abu Ghraib prison incident.
Read on please:

Message 18773227

There I worte:

<<Imagine this uniformed government employees who are in the forces more because of a cushy job -since no one would be crazy to attack the US- than military fervor, now knowing they are facing an enemy they weren't trained to deal with.

They will go frustrated by the day. This is a My Lai kind of situation waiting to happen!! If you don't know in the Vietnamese village of My Lai even the chickens didn't survive and were killed too.

pbs.org

>>

By knowing the script and how it would end, I said the best outcome would have been pizza, a C141 taking Saddam and his family to a safe haven (a la Ferdiand Marcos and Irans, Shah Reza Pahlevi) and Iraq would be controlled by today.

No. I am not available for the National Security Advisor position!
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