Re: Failures of Nostradamus

"eepeep" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dan Pressnell" <dan_pressnell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Under the shadowy pretense of removing servitude,
> > He will himself usurp the people and city:
> > He will do worse because of the deceit of the young prostitute,
> > Delivered in the field reading the false poem.
> >
> > That prediction is that Abraham Lincoln would be involved in a ***
> > scandal in Iowa.
>
> Why do you think that would apply to Abraham Lincoln?  Just because of
the
> first line?  It wasn't a pretense of removing servitude, he really did
> remove servitude.  There are plenty of other instances throughout
history
> that would fit it better, even down to a personal level

Indeed.  One may well interpret this as a quatrain about the Iraqi War.
Certainly Saddam was overthrown, but aren't the violence, murder, rape,
and
kidnapping that currently plague this shattered nation equally pernicious
as
a form of tyranny?  And the prostitute could easily refer to convicted
embezzler (by the Jordanian government) Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who
is our main puppet there.  The false poem he read could refer to all the
smoke he blew up the Pentagon's ass about massive WMD stockpiles in Iraq
to
make the invasion happen.