Pic Of The Moment: Mainstream Media Turns To "Experts" For Commentary On Iraq Situation

[Enthusiast]

14. The problems we have in Iraq were entirely predictable.

As a matter of fact many of us predicted these very problems before the invasion.

If we non-experts could have predicted these problems why couldn't the experts?

Obviously they did foresee these very problems of religious strife. But they also knew they would be out of office by then and the likely Democratic president would make a convenient fall guy. Nothing escapes the attention of these billion dollar operational task forces.

Imagine they are sitting around the table before the invasion. Someone brings up concerns about the religious question that could develop in post invasion Iraq. He is shouted down by one of bullies in the room (Cheney/Rumsfeld). Cheney might say something like this, "We will have adequate forces remaining in country to take care of any contingency."

Ever hear the old refrain, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."