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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:42 PM Original message |
Iraq War Naysayers May Have Hindsight Bias |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Umm,.. Sorry But, WE DID KNOW THIS ALL ALONG! |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. I remember saying from the very beginning |
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wholetruth00 (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 07:12 AM Response to Reply #2 |
59. Hell, even Cheney said this about Iraq right after Desert Strom. |
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Rose Siding (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. LOLOLOLOL |
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EmperorHasNoClothes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
4. Aha! |
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jseankil (604 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. Why not an article about Bush's brain and why he thinks |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. I knew they'd try to pull this trick |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I'd Like To Search The DU Archives from That Time Period. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Here's another one - A Chain of Lies |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. PS: Archive search is tricky but it can be done |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. There Used To Be An Intact Version Of DU... |
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Maeve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
42. I think this is what you want |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:17 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Sweet, Thanks! -NT- |
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I, for one, called the illegal invasion a "catastrophe"... |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
49. here's mine from March 18, 2003 |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
7. Really, did we secretly believe that Bush would be correct? |
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screembloodymurder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
9. Bullshit! |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 11:02 AM Response to Reply #9 |
77. Truly. I saved my protest signs from period of the run-up to the war. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
11. Yeah, I even think I marched in the streets with thousands of others |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. On March 15, 2003 |
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Nostradammit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
12. Imagine, all these people are deluding themselves into believing |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. The Must Have Been Pre-Hindsight Bias. -NT- |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
14. I didn't exactly what would go wrong or how it would go wrong, true. |
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0rganism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
18. isn't this more of an editorial piece? |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I think that "I told you so" comment speaks more to HIS neocon paranoia |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
19. sorry, but i told you so. i told my conservative friends "bush will never |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
21. Yeah, some are Johnny-come-latelys. Others are Juan Coles |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
22. Just pathetic. Especially since the WP whored for the BFEE in |
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Bob3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
23. This doesn't even make sense read back wards |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. Sorry, folks, I distinctly remember predicting |
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wellst0nev0ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:51 AM Response to Reply #24 |
71. I For One Know We Can Expect Peer-Reviewed Articles |
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MGKrebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
25. Is this a straw-man? It's classic bullshit, anyway. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 04:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. In the interest of fairness, the last few paragraphs of this "story" say |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
27. So common-sense is now considered "hindsight bias"? |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
28. Ummm noooo. I'll repost links to my posts from 2003 tonight. |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. What incredible BULLSHIT! |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 04:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. it's agents would engage in sadistic treatment to make Caligula blush. |
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kurth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
30. This is fucking revisionist bullshit |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
32. Wow!!...I'm loving those comments.... |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 05:09 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. You have to admit this is a lot subtler than Orwell predicted in 1984 |
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MGKrebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 05:47 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. You're right. And here's mine from August 2002: |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:01 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. holy crap... |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
36. I guess this guy never reads DU. nt |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
37. I knew that is would be a mess back in 2001 when it was being discussed |
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IChing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
39. THIS IS AN OPINION PIECE OR EDITORIAL HIDING AS NEWS n/t |
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Malikshah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
40. Shankar Vedantum may have syphillis... |
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Rose Siding (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
41. I got his "hindsight bias" right here- |
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pinerow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
44. I think it's called being correct....not "hindsight bias" |
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blitzen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
45. I call "Bullshit"....we absolutely knew all this and more...n/t |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
46. It's like a horse race |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
47. Wow LOOK at all the "HINDSIGHT"ers in 2003! AMAZING!!! |
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fleabert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:02 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. excellent, cross post this on it's own please, so I can nominate it! nt |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
48. Three (Do I Hear Five) Beauties From The Archives. |
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Thor_MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
50. Was it HSB when I said summer '99 that * was a walking clusterfuck? |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
52. This is one of the worst articles from a major newspaper I have ever read. |
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knight_of_the_star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
53. No hindsight here |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
54. TORO TURD! |
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enki23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
55. awww, that's cute mr vedantam |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 03:58 AM Response to Original message |
56. We knew it would go badly since the first Gulf War. |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 04:50 AM Response to Original message |
57. I have ALWAYS said that attacking Iraq would be a disaster! |
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teryang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 12:19 PM Response to Reply #57 |
68. It was obvious that it would upset the balance of power and harm |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
58. Gosh, it's so comforting and satisfying being right, isn't it? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
60. thanks to DU, my feelings on illegal invasion of Iraq |
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Efilroft Sul (827 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
61. Christ, anyone with a brain had "foresight bias." |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
62. There were a bunch of us that did not support this invasion |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 10:26 AM Response to Reply #62 |
63. well, I'll go further |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
64. It's not hindsight, it's ability to read |
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GiveUsHope (61 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
65. WTF kind of psychoanalytical wannabe crap is this? |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
66. So the new thought crime is learning from the past. Check... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
67. The real title for this stinking pile of a story should be... |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
69. In addition to filing your comments here |
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Auntie Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 03:25 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. I remember someone posted a clip art joke type photo of |
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Marie26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
72. Nice revisionism |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
73. Iraq war naysayers have a "we told you so" bias! |
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DrunkenMaster (582 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
74. my email response to the author |
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go west young man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
75. The Washington Post can fuck right off with their diagnosis of |
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
76. Here's the message I sent to my friends and family on March 19, 2003 |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
78. "Blind Into Baghdad" |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
79. I've got written proof I saw this shit coming. |
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