[August]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

So I have to admit I was having doubts and thought perhaps my memory was failing me, but then I thought, nah, this is Tribesman we are talking about.

So I pulled out one of the many books I have read on Iraq, in this case "Fiasco" by Thomas Ricks to see what he had to say about the civil war. Thomas Ricks was the senior Pentagon reporter for the Washington Post and a leading critic of the war.

So I checked the pre-war period and the objections people raised to the war, odd, no mention of a possible civil war; checked late 2003, 2004, 2005 still no discussion of a possible civil war. Finally, when he wrote the conclusion in the fall of 2005, he discusses the possible outcomes as best, middle or worst case scenario. The worst case scenario is a civil war which he mentions as a possibility. So, one of the leading critics of the war did not think a civil war was an obvious outcome as late as the fall of 2005.

So as usual Tribesman you have no idea what you are talking about. The civil war was not obvious to everyone, unless you can explain why Thomas Rick or any of the other persons he interviewed in his book did not see it coming as late as the fall of 2005.

Bam!