Told You So

Who could have predicted that the Iraq war would turn out so badly? Just about everyone outside of the Bush administration, it turns out. And with stunning accuracy. Paul Krugman in a recent NYT article ('They Told You So') quotes all sorts of leaders (including Papa George Bush I) predicting, well, exactly what has come to pass in Iraq. A copy of the article can be found here. One quote:

Former President George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, explaining in 1998 why they didn't go on to Baghdad in 1991: "Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."