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To: Fred Levine who wrote (69647)	4/10/2003 10:45:36 AM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 70976

<The current information indicates the war will be a success> No. The current information indicates the hostilities and the turkey shoot were the success everyone hoped for. Now the hard part starts.........paying for it all with your taxes, setting up the government, installing order, etc.

To: Fred Levine who wrote (69647)	4/10/2003 10:49:35 AM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 70976

Re: I am interested, perhaps because I'm a psychologist Oops. I become part of a study. >Can people simply admit when they are wrong and then >change their assumptions, or do they reconstruct their >assumptions and claim they were always right. I was wrong as I expected more Iraqi casualty and I am glad that I was wrong. Change my view about the war ? Noop because I still think it is not necessary. >You did take a cheap shot Which one ? Not that I want to defend it, just want to clarify which one you are referring to.

To: Fred Levine who wrote (69647)	4/10/2003 10:56:03 AM
From: chomolungma	Respond to of 70976

"When Prophecy Fails," about an end-of-the-world group who wait for Jesus to return on a given date and when he didn't, they claimed never to be precise about the date. Off topic... This might be going from the sublime to the ridiculous but that reminded me of an episode of the 70's sitcom, "Barney Miller." (Don't know if anyone ever watched that, but it was one of the best of all times, IMO.) In the episode, a religious fanatic is predicting the end of the world at midnight. He's locked up in the jail and as he's being moved, one of the cops points out that it's now past midnight. Rather than admitting he's wrong, he turns and says, "See, and you thought prayer wouldn't work."

To: Fred Levine who wrote (69647)	4/11/2003 6:19:14 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 70976

There were doom-and-gloom prophesies here, including my fear that this would never end Nobody around here ever said US/UK would lose this war against Iraq. You are welcome to prove me wrong with a link to a post. The dangers some of us see with US invading another country unilaterally, damaging international alliances and conventions in the meanwhile, and very probably increasing the ease of recruitment for the terrorists still exist. Or did you think these were risks that could blow up in our face within the month of March, when we talked about them in detail? Can people simply admit when they are wrong and then change their assumptions, or do they reconstruct their assumptions and claim they were always right. Some just stop answering questions when they are about to lose the debate, whereupon they turn away, and sulk :-)