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Here’s a two-fer. The GOP’s crystal ball on Iraq. And mine on Obama and the Clintonites.

The Republican party has made a lot of predictions about Iraq. Not a single one has turned out to be true. To keep that unbroken streak alive, they offered up another one yesterday to celebrate the announcement that Obama intends to visit Iraq before the elections.

Here’s Alex Conant, a Republican spokesman:

When Obama visits Iraq, he’ll see that he was wrong to oppose the surge, wrong to continue to ignore our commanders’ advice and wrong to demand premature withdrawal.

Ah yes, the scales will fall from his eyes, and the man will come to his senses, staggering under the burden of finally perceiving The Truth About Things. Stricken by remorse, he will repent his actions of the last few years. To the point that his conscience will not permit him to continue his campaign for President. He may even resign from the Senate, and retire into seclusion.

Hillary Cinton will triumphantly step forth from the sidelines, in an ecstasy of vindication. Throughout America, Clintonites will dance all night in the streets in an orgy of mad revelry. And they will, each and every one, know in their hearts that it was only the depths of their bitterness, their Obama-hatred, that cosmically precipitated this magically wonderful turn of events.