Counter-Coulter Time

Ann really outdid herself this time. Her new collumn "EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE MILLENNIA?" is about those wacky Liberal's crazy predictions about Iraq.

Is she serious? (I have decided not). I'm sure "Liberals" have made incorrect predictions about Iraq...but we have a multitude of great predictions gone wrong from "Conservatives" including GEORGE BUSH, DONALD RUMSFELD, CONDI RICE, etc. But Ann goes after Joe Conason, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Trudy Rubin. Who are these people? I'm a "Liberal" and I've never heard of them. And I don't think their predictions bend and create U.S. policy.

Here's irony. Ann cites a poll by the International Republican Institute to prove a point one minute. The next minute she's deriding Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin for predicting that if elections were held, the new Iraqi government "will likely be dominated by religious parties."

He wasn't the only person who thought that at the time. A poll by the International Republican Institute found that Iraqi's thought the same thing!

I wanted to find some of Ann's own predictions about Iraq but her collumns from that time period have been scrubbed from her website. Plus, predicting requires a form of analysis that I think is way beyond Ann's abilities. But here is an old Ann quote about Iraq:

"The Times also assured its readers that there is "no reliable evidence" that Saddam is connected to the Sept. 11 attack or to al-Qaida. What liberals mean by "no evidence" is always that there is lots of evidence, but arguably not enough to convince an O.J. jury."

No Ann, I think we meant "NO EVIDENCE."