prescience by antiwar liberals

The nation-building problem by John Quiggin (September 21, 2002)

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The Fifty-First State? by James Fallows (November 2002)

It is quite possible that if we went in, took out Saddam Hussein, and then left quickly, the result would be an extremely bloody civil war,” says William Galston, the director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, who was a Marine during the Vietnam War. “That blood would be directly on our hands.”