An interesting post about the Iraq elections on the AntiWar.com blog. It includes links to more interesting articles.
The gist is that the pro-warriors tend to make lots of claims, and then only acknowledge the ones that came true, or they ret-con the position of the anti-warriors:
"For example, who among us ever claimed that the Shiites and Kurds wouldn't vote en masse?"
It's an interesting position, and a post well-worth invetigating.
That is all.
P.S. ret-con means retroactive continuity. In fiction, it is the practice of changing background facts in the story. For example, if the main character in a TV show has been portrayed as a divorcee in the first season and then in the second season it is stated that she was never married, that is a ret-con.
By "ret-con the positions of the anti-warriors" I mean that they pretend that the arguments they made were different than they were.
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