Accepting mistakes.

[Bereta_Eder]

Many of the posts about the war were of course trolls or overblown.

Others I sincerely believed such as that there would be serious resistance in Bagdat and that there was no way to enter that city without at least some bloodbath.

MTG said this wasn't to be the case and I disagreed. And many people disagreed.

The future is yet to be seen but on this I for one have to admit I was wrong and MTG was right.

That's it. One good deed per decade is enough.

[Drake Tungsten]

Backing away from the "one million civilian casualties" claim I see. I'm glad I just ignored you...

[Bereta_Eder]

500.000 actually.

[Bereta_Eder]

I'm sure the US didn't ignore it though.

[Drake Tungsten]

At least you had the balls to admit you were wrong.

[Bereta_Eder]

That I have; let me check... yes.

However I'm not talking about the 500.000 civilians dead which was the initial UN estimate. 100.000 from the fighting and the others from starvation, diseases and other humanitarian crisis. Obviously measures were taken for humanitarian catastrophies not to happen to that scale. These numbers serve as warnings. Besides, "the game is not over", it's level 2 now.

I'm talking about invading Bagdat and not meeting any particular resistance. This was very surprising.

[MattyBoy]

Good work admitting you were wrong, Paiktis.

[chequita guevara]

I have to admit, I was wrong too. I was sure that there were bio and chem weapons in Iraq. Seems like that may not have been true after all.

[Seneca]

Good honest response.

There are two types of cynic - those who want to be proved wrong, and those who hate it. I'm glad Paiktis is of the former sort.

To hear some of the anti-war camp, you'd think they were almost relieved at the looting and anarchy, after all those depressing pictures of cheering Iraqis....

only some mind

[BeBMan]

Interesting - I recently saw something about gulf war I where "serious scientists" predicted 1 billion (really) deaths because of the burning oil fields. They thought they would burn for years causing a severe change in the climate of the region...

After some months all fires were put out, and 1 billion people survived.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I have to admit, I was wrong too. I was sure that there were bio and chem weapons in Iraq. Seems like that may not have been true after all.

I was wrong as well. I thought Iraq had them and was going to use them, but.....Apparently not.

[Seneca]

You're sad because they didn't?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Seneca
You're sad because they didn't?

Though you already know what I meant, I tend to over-estimate the intelligence of many people. Therefore I will clarify:

I'm sad because I made a mistake. Im happy that they didnt use them

[Seneca]

It was my ability to resist a cheap shot that you over-estimated, not my intelligence...

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Seneca
It was my ability to resist a cheap shot that you over-estimated, not my intelligence...

Point and match.

ACK!