One prediction comes true, one on the horizon.
Welcome to the future.

See below, where I said: ...troop deployments in Iraq will begin their reduction in mid-year 2006...

[Quoting From Reuters, 23 November 2005]
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"I suspect that American forces are not going to be needed in the numbers that they're there for all that much longer, because Iraqis are continuing to make progress in function, not just in numbers, but in their capabilities to do certain functions," [U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice told CNN on Tuesday.
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Quoting several senior military officers, the Post said Pentagon authorities also have set a series of "decision points" during 2006 to consider further force cuts that, under a "moderately optimistic" scenario, would drop the total number of troops to fewer than 100,000 from more than 150,000 now, including 10 combat brigades, by the end of the year.
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What's that you say? "Duh?" "Who couldn't see that coming?" Fine, that was an easy one, but nobody could have seen that today's egocentric culture would create such a groundswell of support for an Iraq pullout? This isn't astroturfing, people, this is real.

Oh, and hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!

On Fox News, 25 November 2005, Fox News Military Analyst Lt. Col. Bill Cowan (Ret.) said, "...there are good indications that U.S. forces had crossed into Syria to pursue some insurgents, possibly Al Quaeda people..." Okay, so my prediction below, ... trade routes running Libyan guns to Syrian Jihadists paid with Saudi money will be exposed and shut down by the first of the year, 2006 ... was a little off in the timing, but cross-border incursions into a sovereign nation aren't often made lightly. Well, except by a Republican administration.

Viva la Guerra!