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Heh.

TB — 4/22/2008 5:28:13 AM (archived)

I sure as heck did better than that guy. And I didn't even pick the article. Bowser did.

The omniscience of the war critics is largely retroactive. They tout the one or two things they got right, and all the rest gets quietly forgotten. Fortunetellers make a living this way.

I thought the dire predictions about the dangers of Saddam's WMD were particularly good.

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"Perils Of Victory" (February 3, 2003 Newsweek) - Bowser - 4/21/2008 1:40:53 AM
- Prescience - TB - 4/21/2008 4:18:11 AM
  - Yes, well.... - Yeti - 4/21/2008 9:01:07 PM
    - Heh. - TB - 4/22/2008 5:28:13 AM
      - Attention Robet S. - Yeti - 4/22/2008 3:42:46 PM
        
        No kidding - Robert - 4/22/2008 5:36:58 PM
        
        Can I at least get some idea of how we're scoring this? - TB - 4/22/2008 11:00:02 PM
        
        The scoring system is very simple - Robert - 4/22/2008 11:48:06 PM
        
        Okay, you win. - TB - 4/23/2008 12:13:10 AM
        
        That was just plain stupid - Robert - 4/23/2008 5:34:44 PM
        
        No, actually, your post was. - TB - 4/24/2008 3:35:28 AM
        
        same as it ever was - Robert - 4/25/2008 9:28:59 PM
        
        Incidentally... - TB - 4/26/2008 5:36:13 PM
        
        re: same as it ever was - TB - 4/26/2008 5:07:39 PM
        
        Dude. I bet you could write a lisp program - Yetiliza - 4/25/2008 9:59:29 PM
        
        I don't think so...it would come out as "thothialitht." (n/t) - TB - 4/29/2008 8:58:21 PM
        
        Ohh! - Yeti - 4/26/2008 12:53:11 AM
        
        Imagine, if you will, a search form... - Robert - 4/26/2008 2:56:37 AM
        
        And here... - TB - 4/23/2008 12:14:24 AM
        
        Tell you what, how about you just beat this mark? - Yeti - 4/23/2008 4:44:28 AM
        
        What, Tom- cat got your tongue? - Yeti - 4/25/2008 4:15:28 AM
        
        Dude, you had to go back five years. - TB - 4/25/2008 4:58:55 AM
        
        Tom used the word "dude"? - azstrummer - 4/25/2008 11:03:29 PM
        
        Actually... - TB - 4/26/2008 5:11:21 PM
        
        I do it too, for comedy's sake. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2008 6:54:25 PM
        
        I know, right? (n/t) - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:18:22 PM
        
        Far out, man. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2008 8:09:32 PM
        
        totally! (n/t) - Robert - 4/26/2008 2:57:19 AM
        
        Insane - Yeti - 4/25/2008 3:53:27 PM
        
        Track record - TB - 4/26/2008 5:26:06 PM
        
        The value of the US in Iraq made really, really simple. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2008 4:39:53 PM
        
        The numbers make no sense. - TB - 4/28/2008 6:39:52 PM
        
        Check your premises. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 10:15:31 PM
        
        Please. Don't teach granny how to suck eggs. (n/t) - TB - 4/28/2008 11:00:34 PM
        
        Another way of looking at: - podrock - 4/27/2008 3:36:44 PM
        
        My calculations... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 8:36:00 PM
        
        In other words, numbers, reason, logic etc are not needed. Its all just one big conspiracy. - Yeti - 4/28/2008 7:28:23 PM
        
        It's hopeless. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 11:15:12 PM
        
        Maybe if I speak slowly enough, you will understand. - Yeti - 4/29/2008 12:04:58 AM
        
        Monopolists versus Capitalists - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 1:41:32 AM
        
        You got nothing. - Yeti - 4/29/2008 1:53:54 AM
        
        Believe what you want. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 2:18:53 AM
        
        Like someone showing up to a southerbys auction with a little red wagon and a ball of rested bailing wire. - Yeti - 4/29/2008 3:16:53 AM
        
        Sotheby's? Southerby's must be for the southern folks... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 3:52:29 AM
        
        Problem is, you numbers and etc only make sense in TechLand - Yeti - 4/25/2008 10:44:17 PM
        
        Sure you do. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2008 11:42:37 PM
        
        Oookay, Tech. Thats nice. (n/t) - yeti - 4/26/2008 5:52:37 AM
        
        Yeah, I thought so. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 8:07:22 AM
        
        Just nothing one can say - Yeti - 4/26/2008 5:00:06 PM
        
        Let me get this straight... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 6:37:23 PM
        
        PS - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:17:47 PM
        
        No, let me straighten you out. - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:09:32 PM
        
        Actually, a pittance of a drop - Yeti - 4/26/2008 7:34:37 PM
        
        Like I said... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 10:28:48 PM
        
        re: Oh! Easy one- number of wars started for causes that were fictions - Yeti - 4/22/2008 11:27:18 PM
        
        Whoa...looks like you win hands-down then. - TB - 4/22/2008 11:42:27 PM
        
        re: No kidding - REB - 4/22/2008 9:45:48 PM
        
        Naive, perhaps... - Robert - 4/22/2008 10:26:26 PM
        
        Actually - Yeti - 4/22/2008 9:25:19 PM
        
        re: Actually - Robert - 4/22/2008 10:30:39 PM
        
        re: Actually - Yeti - 4/22/2008 11:20:16 PM
        
        Now it's clear - Robert - 4/23/2008 12:04:36 AM
        
        oh, and - Yeti - 4/23/2008 4:28:20 AM
        
        re: Now it's clear - Yeti - 4/23/2008 4:22:14 AM
        
        Hey Arrell - Yeti - 4/22/2008 8:26:45 PM
        
        Nevermind - Yeti - 4/23/2008 2:57:45 PM
      - What???!!! There is no way even YOU can revise history that way. - Bowser - 4/22/2008 6:33:00 AM

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