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	<title><![CDATA[Strange But True: The Ishtar and Iraq Coincidences]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-barlow/strange-but-true-the-isht_b_64622.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Just over twenty years ago - while George Bush was up to his ears in dodgy stock deals over at Harken - Elaine May, Warren Beatty, and Dustin Hoffman went off to the desert to make a movie called <em>Ishtar</em>.</p>

<p>Little did they realize that they were embarking on an eerie foreshadowing of what would occur under President Bush. </p>

<p>In fact, the comparisons between <em>Ishtar</em> and The War in Iraq, rank up there right alongside the bizarre similarities between </p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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