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2005-03-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-01 9:10:34 AM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Read the whole thing. As the author says, "I don't like to say I told you so. But, actually, I do like to say I told you so. What I don't like to do is the obligatory false self-deprecatory thing to mitigate against the insufferableness of my saying I told you so. But nevertheless I did."

The"stability" before the war, may have been stable, but it wasn't as refreshing as what we have now!

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-01 10:22:34 AM|| 2005-03-01 10:22:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 this really isn't news - it's commentary
Mark Steyn's commentary - so its great

Posted by mhw 2005-03-01 10:27:09 AM|| 2005-03-01 10:27:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The major networks only emphasized the capture of Saddam's half brother. Who are the other 28?

Posted by TMH 2005-03-01 10:36:43 AM|| 2005-03-01 10:36:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush's foreign policy at work. Good catch. Way to go!

Posted by ex-lib 2005-03-01 12:03:11 PM|| 2005-03-01 12:03:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 From the linked article, Steyn's quotation form April 6, 2002 - "The stability junkies in the EU, UN and elsewhere have, as usual, missed the point. The Middle East is too stable. So, if you had to pick only one regime to topple, why not Iraq? Once you've got rid of the ruling gang, it's the West's best shot at incubating a reasonably non-insane polity. That's why the unravelling of the Middle East has to start not in the West Bank but in Baghdad."

Steyn has a right to say I told you so - he said it before it was cool.

Posted by Carlos 2005-03-01 4:09:10 PM|| 2005-03-01 4:09:10 PM|| Front Page Top

29 Ba'athists turned over?

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-01 6:54:32 PM|| 2005-03-01 6:54:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 And what makes this so absurdly funny is the loonie left in the US seems to be turning their rhetoric up a notch. It's like they are trying to wish the Middle East back to the deadly stalemate of the past decades. Their collective blind hatred of W and anything conservative will not allow them to see the obvious.

History will most certainly show that these brain-washed LLL's are the geo-political equivalent of the "flat-earthers" for the early 21st century.

Posted by anymouse 2005-03-01 11:16:26 PM|| 2005-03-01 11:16:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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