I was reading a few of my old posts today and found a few interesting things that we expected to happen in the Iraq war - it is interesting to look back and see what went right and what didn’t - to see what we thought we knew then and what we know now.
Praful Bidwai says it is very important to find Saddam’s WMD -The second course would mean the war lacks a moral and political basis. Such a war will be extremely unpopular even in the West, including the US — where a majority of people wrongly believe that Iraq and Al Qaeda are linked. It will inflict terrible cruelties upon the Iraqi people, without necessarily unearthing and safely destroying such WMD as Mr Saddam Hussein may have stashed away in hard-to-find places.[Emphasis mine]
Experts estimate that the Iraqi civilian casualties will be anywhere between 100,000 and 500,000.
Documents filed in an Indian court suggest Saddam is using a few chemical plants in Iraq to build chemical weapons.
I will add more as I go through more entries to find interesting stuff.
Update: I wondered if Antoine Rigadeau will be the missing piece to make Mavs win the title - Can I die of shame now?
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Ah Shanti, someone is just going to quote that Lancet article (100,000) deaths and say: “I told you so.”
Posted by: MD at February 1, 2005 9:16 PM
Oops! I did find it ironic that Praful Bidwai was advocating against the war because he thought Saddam had WMDs.
Posted by: Shanti at February 2, 2005 9:00 AM