Reply #3: Absolute revisionist history and propaganda here.

[Mr Rabble]

Check out this line:

". . . few predicted such a protracted war in Iraq, one in which Iraqi insurgents would rely on disfiguring bombs and bombardment as chief tactics."

Really? Few predicted?

I fucking predicted it, and I am just a guy on the internet.

In fact, I would say that overwhelming numbers of people predicted it, however just not "the right" people.
We were all called Pollyanna, conspiracy theorist, Defeatocrat, and every other derogatory term.

We were correct. And here we are, still screaming the truth to a deaf ear.