Post by Moses on Dec 30, 2004 2:59:11 GMT -5
www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/29/opinion/edsafire.html
Iraqis will see the: (a) election of Ayad Allawi and progress on the bumpy road to democracy; (b) comeback of Ahmad Chalabi dreaded by the CIA; (c) insurgency's sudden collapse with the capture of Osama bin Laden and killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; (d) beginning of the U.S. troop drawdown; (e) judgment of not guilty in Saddam Hussein's trial; (f) bloody Shiite-Sunni civil war and Kurds' independence.
Safires prediction: "progress on the BUMPY road to democracy".
[Note to self: cross file under "War Criminals"]
Iraqis will see the: (a) election of Ayad Allawi and progress on the bumpy road to democracy; (b) comeback of Ahmad Chalabi dreaded by the CIA; (c) insurgency's sudden collapse with the capture of Osama bin Laden and killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; (d) beginning of the U.S. troop drawdown; (e) judgment of not guilty in Saddam Hussein's trial; (f) bloody Shiite-Sunni civil war and Kurds' independence.
Safires prediction: "progress on the BUMPY road to democracy".
[Note to self: cross file under "War Criminals"]