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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (737737)4/24/2006 3:18:09 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Re: "No one can predict the future 100% I don't think many people thought that the terrorists would just start blowing up...."

I don't know for sure how many people are that smart and experienced in foreign affairs, and political and military and regional imperatives....

But, the first President Bush and his military advisor Scowcroft certainly belong on the list (considering they actually PUBLISHED such predictions WELL IN ADVANCE of the second US/Iraq War), and, I'd argue that the collected weight of the Pentagon's best planners, and the C.I.A.'s and State Department's best Arabist and Middle Eastern experts also belong on that list --- since the extremely detailed Plan for the Occupation of Iraq after the war that they spent over two years and several millions of dollars in drawing up certainly referenced all of these possibilities... along with giving some very specific advice for how to *avoid* most of the problems our botched occupation has engendered.... Too bad these experts were ignored.
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