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Skriven 2009-12-29 04:59:44 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 1983 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: The Evil That Men Do
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Replying to a message of Roy Witt to Ward Dossche:

 RW>>> And was laughed at because you were silly enough to make
 RW>>> stupid predictions that didn't come true.

 WD>> Like "which" ?

 WD>> I predicted that war,

 RW> [Iraq War]

 RW> That war was won within weeks of it's start. No Iraqi troops
 RW> opposed the coalition as they approached Baghdad and their
 RW> leader was on the run. He was captured some time later and
 RW> executed by his own people.

<snort>  Saddam was captured by US troops from a tipoff they bought.
He was hung by the puppet government installed by Bush minor's regime.

 RW> The subsequent occupation and training of Iraqi'
 RW> police/troops took longer.

Nearly eight years after the fact that's still an open question.  No end in
sight yet.

 WD>> and the one in Afghanistan, could not be won.

 RW> Your boy, Obama has just said that he's sending in more
 RW> troops, so that war isn't over yet.

And it never will be - unless, of course, you intend to kill every single
human in the area.

 WD>> Seems this is exactly what is happening.

 RW> Ahhh, another erroneous prediction.

 WD>> I predicted that no WMD's would be found. None were.

 RW> You weren't alone in that one. However, weapons grade
 RW> nuclear materials that could have been used were found and
 RW> secreted off to Canada.

One has to wonder how Saddam managed that little trick.  I
seriously doubt that he could have sneaked either an aircraft
or a ship from Iraq to Canada without somebody noticing.

 WD>> I predicted that Iraq would be turned into chaos. It was.

 RW> Seems pretty quiet there now. A few suicidal bombers taking
 RW> out other tribal muslims isn't anything new for that area
 RW> and the rest of the muslimm world.

Don't recall reading much about such activities in Iraq prior to Bush
minor's adventures there.  Most such suicide bombers seemed to be
pretty much confined to Palestinians acting against Israel.

 WD>> I predicted the university of Baghdad, one of the best in
 WD>> the world, would be closed. It was.

 RW> Couldn't have been a good one if it were shut down.

Iraq also had the best medical system in the Middle East prior to
Bush the elder's economic war against Iraq.

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