Sylvia Browne, the fraudulent psychic (redundant?) who shamelessly told the Hornbeck family four years ago that their son Shawn was dead, simultaneously predicted that a Shia-Sunni civil war would follow a U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Appearing jointly with the Hornbeck family¬†on the Montel Williams show in February 2003,¬†Browne said she¬†saw “brown-skinned men, their faces wrapped in scarves, shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great)¬†and ‘Americans Must Die’.”

She also predicted that no weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq, and that “a Shia crescent anchored by an Iranian-Iraqi axis would roil the Middle East for decades to come, and cause a fundamental shake-up of¬†the geopolitical balance in the region.”

Ms. Browne said that she would have had more predictions about Iraq, but that the failing electricity grid in Baghdad made it difficult to see more clearly.

The psychic’s predictions in early 2003¬†were¬†not reported at the time, primarily because Judith Miller of The New York Times refused to take her calls.

However, it is expected that a bombshell at the upcoming Scooter Libby trial will reveal that the Vice President tried to discredit the psychic’s predictions of chaos in Iraq.¬† A leak from Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald’s office indicates that Mr. Cheney spread the rumor that Ms. Browne was sent to the Montel Williams show by Valerie Plame.

The Libby trial is also expected to establish that despite its trashing of Ms. Browne, the Bush Administration itself relied on fraudulent psychics who predicted Americans would be greeted in Iraq with candy and flowers. As a source inside Fitzgerald’s office said: “Why do you think we call them NeoCONS?”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Glenn Greenwald on the Road to Iraq.

BuzzFlash: Bush on Roe and Life, and Mahablog on the framing of the abortion debate. 

Dan Kurtzman’s State of the Union Drinking Game.

Daily Show on America’s sacrificing peace of mind, via Norm Jenson.¬†