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7. Remember Donald Rumsfeld's prediction of the Iraq invsion at its onset

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Wed Feb 25, 2026, 03:01 PM

13 hrs ago

"Maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months."

oops.

Once you initiate a hot war, it is rare that projections and predictions based on theory alone turn out to be accurate.

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