Anti-War Movement Correct on All Points
James Chamblee
30527/cm_ucru/operation_iraqi_eradication
Mon, May 26, 2003
OPERATION IRAQI ERADICATION
By Ted Rall
The Rise of a Bigger, Better Taliban
NEW YORK--
We told you so.
We warned the Bush Administration that invading Iraq would destabilize
the Middle East and spread radical anti-American Islamism.
We told the American people that taking out Saddam Hussein without a
viable government to replace him would open a vacuum for anarchy,
civil war and a power grab by radical Iranian-backed Shiite clerics.
Now the antiwar movement's doomsday scenarios have been fulfilled so
completely that military history scarcely mentions a more thoroughly
botched endeavor--and we'll be living with the fallout for years.
When we argued that Donald Rumsfeld's low-budget occupation of Iraq
would turn out as disastrously as it had in Afghanistan, right-wing
Republicans called us stupid and un-American.
Now that we've been proven correct on every count, is it too much to
expect an apology?
Maybe so.
Given George W. Bush's performance on the economy and the war on
terrorism (where's Osama? Saddam? the WMDs? the surplus?), betting
against him hardly makes one a prophet.
And no one is less pleased with the speed and totality of the Iraqi
catastrophe than those of us who called it in advance.
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And now what.
Harry
maureen
Don't ask! Iran, Syria, North Korea? Pax Americana?
Where are those elusive WMD?
maureen
Fcattus
John
maureen
>I think Shrub would like to "liberate" Cuba, too..
>
>John
I shudder to think who else he wants to "liberate"!
maureen