USA: Bill Kristol, the neocon ‘Nostradamus’ of the wrong predictions

From Crooks and Liars blog in the USA:

Bill Kristol: The Anti-Nostradamus

By: SilentPatriot on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 5:10 AM

When you hear level-headed people say that General Kristol and the Neocons have been wrong about literally everything for the past five years, they’re not kidding.

Anonymous Liberal — guest-posting for Glenn at Unclaimed Territory — gives us a small sample of the predictions made by TIME Magazine’s new “star” columnist:

On March 17, 2003, on the eve of our invasion of Iraq, Bill Kristol wrote the following:

We are tempted to comment, in these last days before the war, on the U.N., and the French, and the Democrats.

But the war itself will clarify who was right and who was wrong about weapons of mass destruction.

It will reveal the aspirations of the people of Iraq, and expose the truth about Saddam’s regime.

…

History and reality are about to weigh in, and we are inclined simply to let them render their verdicts.

Now, you would think that being so incredibly wrong about such an important subject might hurt your career prospects, and that would probably be true in any other field.

But in the world of Washington punditry, being consistently and catastrophically wrong about everything is apparently not an obstacle to advancement.

Read more here.

Meanwhile, Kristol‘s colleague as conservative and ‘Nostradamus’, Pat Robertson, is again making all sorts of predictions for 2007, claiming to have a hotline with God Himself.

Robertson’s islamophobia: here.

On Robertson, from the Google cache, 8/24/05:

Robertson is calling for murder of a head of state [Hugo Chavez of Venezuela] with diplomatic ties to the United States (a popularly elected head of state, contrary to Robertson’s buddy George W. Bush).

What are police waiting for? And/or what are psychiatric ambulance crews waiting for?

And how about Robertson’s “Reverend” colleagues Jimmy Swaggart and Fred Phelps, calling for murdering gay people in the Unites States?

US neoconservative Iraq war propagandist Jonah Goldberg admits in 2007 that ‘the French were right on the Iraq war‘.

Neocons of ‘Freedom House’: here.

Anti-neoconservative action in Poland: here.

US opponents of Iraq war before it started proved right: here.

Pat Robertson’s group sues to stop mosque near ground zero: here.

Rightist attack on Gombrich’s A Little History of the World: here.