Foreign Policy In Focus, By Erik Leaver, Stephen Zunes Oct. 2, 2005
In a series of articles written between June 2002 and February 2003, I predicted that if the United States invaded Iraq, it was highly unlikely we would find any of the weapons of mass destruction or WMD programs that the Bush administration and the congressional leadership of both parties claimed Iraq possessed in their effort to justify an American takeover of that oil-rich country. I also predicted that no operational links between the Iraqi regime and al-Qaida would be found and that a U.S. invasion would encourage terrorism rather than discourage it. Finally, I predicted we could find ourselves virtually isolated in the international community facing a bloody counter-insurgency war with no end in sight… [source]