As the situation in Iraq spirals further & further out of control, I wanted to share this cartoon with you that I did back in August of ‘03. (Fortunately, my Dubya has improved immensely since then; unfortunately, he’s been in office long enough for that to happen).
Apparently, I wasn’t the only person who felt this way. In fact, US intelligence agencies warned Bush & Co. that post invasion Iraq might not be as rosy as they were leading everyone to believe. Here are a few prophetic warnings from the report:
• Establishing “an Iraqi democracy would be a long, difficult and probably turbulent process, with potential for backsliding into Iraq’s tradition of authoritarianism.”
• Unless the occupying forces prevented it, “score settling would occur throughout Iraq between those associated with Saddam’s regime and those who have suffered most under it.”
• Among the majority Shiite population, which Saddam had kept out of power, a political form of Islam could take root, “particularly if economic recovery were slow and foreign troops remained in the country for a long period.”
• Iran would probably try to shape the post-Hussein Iraq, in a bid to position itself as a regional power.
• Al Qaeda would probably take advantage of the war to increase its terrorist activities, and the lines between it and other terrorist groups “could become blurred.”
Oddly, it didn’t mention anything about rose petals…
