# Prophetic Threads?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-threads/390787>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-threads/390787 "2007-02-04T16:00:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-threads/390787/21 "2007-02-06T02:30:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Zeldar]  
Yikes! It has been a while, hasn’t it? Seems like only yesterday. My bad.  
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Time sure gets away 🙂

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-threads/390787/22 "2007-02-06T03:42:47Z")

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I recall several posters predicting (or at least worrying) that Iraq would devolve into civil war along ethnic and religious lines in the same manner as Yugoslavia after Tito died.

[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3181987&postcount=1) [are](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3063779&postcount=7) [some](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3294132&postcount=59) [examples](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3307841&postcount=39) from March-April 2003.

And on January 17, 2001 (before 9/11) [rjung made the following prediction](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1063011&postcount=6):

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> Dubya will provoke a fight with Iraq, because Saddam made his Poppy look like a wimp, and he needs a war to distract the populace from his stolen “Presidency.”

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**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-threads/390787/23 "2007-02-06T17:32:15Z")

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I wrote on [8/28/05, 9:29pm](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6519085&postcount=122) (emphasis mine):

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> Another Baton Rouge doper checking in. We’re in Hundred Oaks Park. I have my mom and sisters (and my sister’s dog) here with us. **If the levees break in New Orleans** , they’ll be here with us for the foreseeable future.

I don’t consider that a prophecy since people had been predicting it to happen for decades.

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