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    Even I, who likes to think I'm smarter than the average bear, had to admit ignorance on quite a few of these.  In fact a good many of them -- especially those regarding "public sentiment" -- no human alive could possibly know.

    Good science has error bars.  Punditry should have them too.

    Bush: Irresponsible and Reckless. Pass it on!

    by Captain Obvious on Tue Apr 20, 2004 at 01:43:38 PM PDT

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      We're all implicated here true.  but --  only the Bush side claimed it KNEW what would happen. The side that opposed the war was saying it did NOT know:  we did NOT know Iraq posed an "imminent threat;" we did NOT know if there were WMD; we did NOT know what would happen when our troops rolled into town expecting to be greeted with flowers, etc;  we did not know exactly what the world public reaction would be.

      The cocky-overconfidence was overwhelmingly with the Bush administration and its supporters.

      Still, whenever I see a know-it-all pundit on TV who's never left the United States talking about Shii and Sunnis like they have any CLUE what they're talking about all so CNN or FOX can sell their viewers some pepsi, I'm pretty disgusted.  

      great diary!

      by markymarx on Tue Apr 20, 2004 at 02:21:32 PM PDT

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      IS an error bar.

      Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. --Elie Wiesel

      by a gilas girl on Tue Apr 20, 2004 at 02:25:16 PM PDT

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