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Predictions are risky, cause the future has not happened yet.
But I think I have a history of making good predictions, for
example I predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, so I will
foolishly stick my neck out and make some predictions:
The Iraq war will, as everyone knows, be launched on the 27 or
28th of february.
It will be short and victorious, ending some time in april or
march. War coverage will be highly patriotic and gung ho, but
will remind viewers of what they have tended to forget -- the
cost of war, with damaging effects on the presidency. The
conquered Iraqis will be eager to please, and much less
truculent than those damned french. They will gladly seek
direction on their future political institutions.
Despite that, the peace will prove considerably harder to win
than the war. with servants of the Iranian theocrats demanding
unlimited democracy, and absolute popular sovereignty, a
democracy similar to that which we have so often seen in Africa
-- one man, one vote, once, a demand which will receive
European and UN support. The new imperial domain will come to
haunt Americans.
This message posted while drunk, because no sober person would
make a prediction that will stay around forever, and that
anyone can access.
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James A. Donald
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