[lbo-talk] Hersh on Bush & Iran

[Jim Devine]

Doug:
> Almost everyone who knew anything about Iraq predicted what would
> happen if the US invaded, and the Bush admin ignored or fired them.
> Miscalculation seems too kind a word for that.

Yoshie:
> That sounds like revisionism, Doug!  Even on LBO-talk, for a _long_
> time, those who thought that Washington could and should provide
> "security" for Iraqis, "reconstruct" Iraq, "prevent" a civil war, etc.
> were a majority.  Look into the archived threads on Iraq from 2003
> till at least early 2004.

Yoshie, the set of people "who knew anything about Iraq" may or may
not overlap with that of people on LBO-talk.
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