Thursday, April 10, 2003

Hall of Shame Media recriminations after VB Day. (National Review, April 10, 2003)

HALLF OF SHAME

Eric Alterman
“Is Wolfowitz really so ignorant of history as to believe the Iraqis would welcome us as 'their hoped-for liberators'?”

Nicholas D. Kristof
“[I]f President Bush thinks our invasion and occupation will go smoothly because Iraqis will welcome us, then [he] is deluding himself.”

Chris Matthews
“This invasion of Iraq, if it goes off, will join the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Desert One, Beirut and Somalia in the history of military catastrophe.”

Barry McCaffrey
“[W]e could take, bluntly, a couple to 3,000 casualties.”


Robert Wright
“. . . the Pentagon's failure to send enough troops to take Baghdad fairly quickly could complicate the postwar occupation . . . ”

+ other favorites including:

R. W. Apple, Peter Arnett, & Maureen Dowd

I wonder if their failure to understand what the Pentagon understood will preclude them from making future predictions. Nah. They’ll just pretend they never said it.

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