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To: Lane3 who wrote (23097)	1/5/2004 7:25:28 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793673

But I wouldn't necessarily remember the gamut of the predictions. What I remember is all the predictions about how badly things would go during the invasion. The anti-war crowd was predicting "Ammegedden." What would happen afterwards was a mishmash, as I recall. It's easy now to see where we went wrong. The only thing I know I had right was questioning the number of MP units we had it place. They looked woefully short to me, and that turned out to be right. I said the people would be happy we came, and they were. Polls show that. I now think that the Military critics were right about what the loss of the 4th ID from the North costs us. We would have wiped out the Sunnis there who got to go home without fighting and then took up fighting us now.

To: Lane3 who wrote (23097)	1/5/2004 7:46:08 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793673

"The author did say, though, that the predictions were remarkably consistent." The author failed to accurately state was that there were countless predictions that weren't even close to what actually transpired ET AL. Where are the overcrowded refugee camps? Where are the 500k slaughtered innocent civilians? Where is the massive humanitarian crisis? Where is the massive loss of life in month after month of street to street fighting for Baghdad? Where is the mass discontent & uprising of the Arab Street? Where is the massive increase in acts of terrorism? Etc., etc., ad nauseam...... The list of horrifically wrong predictions absolutely swamps the scant few that slightly resemble what actually transpired.