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To: Mannie who wrote (91260)12/8/2006 10:17:52 AM
From: CalculatedRisk  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 360951
 
They Told You So, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times:
select.nytimes.com

Free excerpts here:
economistsview.typepad.com

Shortly after U.S. forces marched into Baghdad in 2003, The Weekly Standard published a jeering article titled, “The Cassandra Chronicles: The stupidity of the antiwar doomsayers.” Among those the article mocked was a “war novelist” named James Webb, who is now the senator-elect from Virginia.

The article’s title was more revealing than its authors knew. People forget the nature of Cassandra’s curse: although nobody would believe her, all her prophecies came true