the "We told you so" column

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Thu May 29 10:29:09 CDT 2003


OPERATION IRAQI ERADICATION
Tue May 27, 5:05 PM ET

By Ted Rall 

The Rise of a Bigger, Better Taliban 

NEW YORK--We told you so. 

We warned the Bush Administration that invading Iraq
(news - web sites) would destabilize the Middle East
and spread radical anti-American Islamism. We told the
American people that taking out Saddam Hussein (news -
web sites) 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 (news - web sites), 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. 

As I predicted last July, the war has meant the end of
a unified Iraq and the beginning of chaos throughout
the Middle East. [...] 

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<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/ucru/20030527/cm_ucru/operation_iraqi_eradication>

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