Reply #17: My add: Friedman kept saying it could be done the RIGHT way

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and that Bush was letting opportunities slip away---

And he kept saying it for THREE YEARS.

I figured, "Sooner or later, Friedman is going to have to admit that any opportunity to turn Iraq into a decent place have been lost, now that Bush has done the exact opposition of his recommendations for another six months." ''

But no. Friedman never pulled the plug, never admitted that the the opportunity has passed, that Iraq couldn't be fixed. Apparently what he said about opportunities that had to be taken wasn't true, because Bush never took them and Friedman kept pretending they were still available.......

So I stopped reading the column, since I had already read the Iraq column a dozen times.