Prescient Iraq quote...guess who, when and where...

[Richardo]

The people .... have been led in <Iraq> into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our ... record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are to-day not far from a disaster.

Highlight here for the answer--> T. E. Lawrence, in a letter to the Sunday (London) Times - August 22, 1920<-- highlight here

[knowbody0]

1. does not compute

[expatriot]

2. WInston Churchill.... 1920's? nt

half right.... I didn't read the highlight here part.

[NewJeffCT]

I'm guessing it's from the British earlier in the 20th century?

I know they ran into problems back then...

[FrenchieCat]

3. Lawrence ?

of Arabia?

[Richardo]

12. Mai oui, FrenchieCat

:)

[doublethink]

4. Wow cool technique .... the 'highlight' thingy ...

this so easily could have been quoted today about Americas occupation there. Had me fooled. Peace. :)

[Inland]

5. How does the hightlight work? I'll give a quiz a day! nt

[Richardo]

6. I'll use "<" to demonstrate, but for real use square brackets

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[johnaries]

7. Here's another one. Who said:

"To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition,
turning the whole Arab world against us
and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero
... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt
for a securely entrenched dictator
and condemning them to fight
in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war.
It could only plunge that part of the world
into even greater instability."

Answer (using Richardo's neat highlight trick) > George Herbert Walker Bush, 1998
Hey, it works!

[doublethink]

8. I have no idea who said that but I'm gonna kick this .....

just for the sake of the 'highlight' trick you learned so well ... :) Peace. :kick: ps: I won't cheat and look at the answer and see if someone else gets it. :)

[Richardo]

11. I remember that one - junior should listen to daddy every now and then

But he has REAL daddy issues.... :scared:

[autorank]

9. Ricardo, F'ING PERFECT!!!!! and so erudite in a cyber sort of way.

That about says it all. Of course, no one in our administration would pay attention to that would they?

:hi:

[doublethink]

10. Hey Autorank !!!!!!!!!!!

I remember you when I first came to DU a couple of months ago !!! What up hommie? We talk like that in Cali :) ...anyway I remember you and I were trying to keep a thread alive by I believe it was Auntibush or AntiBush. She/He .... probably she .... was trying to get to her 1000th post ... and I kept asking 'Who's on First?' just to keep the thread alive before everyone fell asleep. :) Well hope all is well and if it wasn't you .... well :think: my mistake :dunce: Peace. :)

[autorank]

15. It was me, autorank of RankLand, but born in California...

And proud of it. Yeah, I've been around a lot longer than 2 months but that's when we met:think:

I remember that, you made me :rofl:, late at night (for me anyway).

Keep up the good work out there with Gov. DumbAss. He'll get to this point soon :banghead: and reach for the roids.

Then the fun will start!

:hi:

[welshTerrier2]

13. and another prescient Iraq quote ...

One of General Zinni's (who referred to early Iraq invasion plans as a "Bay of Goats") close aides said, "Our question was, 'What about the day after?' How do you deal with the long-term security aspects of Iraq? For example, do you take the Republican Guard and disarm it? Or is it preferable to turn it from having a capability to protect Saddam to a capability to protect Iraq? You've got Kurds in the north, Arab Shia in the south, and the Baath Party in the middle, with great internal tribal divisions. There's potential for civil war. Layer on external opposition and you've got a potential for great instability. I'm a military planner and plan for the worst case. As bad as this guy is, a stable Iraq is better than instability."

looks like he had it figured out pretty well, doesn't it ??

[Richardo]

14. Zinni is a very smart guy - I'm sure his aides reflect that too

We'd all be better off if the administration would have listened to veteran combat officers like Zinni and Wes Clark.

[Rosco T.]

16. History Speaks... n/m