If the United States leaves Iraq things will really get bad - The Anti-Empire Report

[babylonsister]

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1502/81/

If the United States leaves Iraq things will really get bad - The Anti-Empire Report
Written by William Blum
Friday, 04 May 2007
by William Blum

This appears to be the last remaining, barely-breathing argument of that vanishing species who still support the god-awful war. The argument implies a deeply-felt concern about the welfare and safety of the Iraqi people. What else could it mean? That the US military can't leave because it's needed to protect the oil bonanza awaiting American oil companies as soon as the Iraqi parliament approves the new written-in-Washington oil law? No, the Bush administration loves the people of Iraq. How much more destruction, killing and torturing do you need to be convinced of that? We can't leave because of the violence. We can't leave until we have assured that peace returns to our dear comrades in Iraq.

To better understand this argument, it helps to keep in mind the following about the daily horror that is life in Iraq:

It did not exist before the US occupation.

The insurgency violence began as, and remains, a reaction to the occupation; like almost all insurgencies in occupied countries — from the American Revolution to the Vietcong — it's a fight directed toward getting foreign forces to leave.

The next phase was the violence of Iraqis against other Iraqis who worked for or sought employment with anything associated with the occupation regime.

Then came retaliatory attacks for these attacks.

Followed by retaliatory attacks for the retaliatory attacks.

Jihadists from many countries have flocked to Iraq because they see the war against the American Satan occupiers as a holy war.

Before the occupation, many Sunnis and Shiites married each other; since the occupation they have been caught up in a spiral of hating and killing each other.

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[hobbit709]

1. Really bad compared to what?

Another POS idea from the clowns that got us into this mess. They can't/won't admit to making a mistake so they want to convince us that we have to keep this FUBAR operation going or it will become an unspecified worse.

[bahrbearian]

2. If we were to leave Iraq with out victory ,it would only be a couple

of months before they would develope a WMD

[leftchick]

3. I heard the DLC's Harold Ford repeat this nonsense last night

on Real Time.

[ananda]

4. It's extremely bad already.

Bush's track record is that everything he does
just makes it worse.

[babylonsister]

5. Unreal. Did anyone who responded actually READ this? Here's

the last para:

If the United States leaves — meaning all its troops and bases — it will remove the very foundation, origin, and inspiration of most of the hate and violence. Iraqis will have a chance to reclaim their land and their life. They have a right to be given that opportunity. Let America's deadly "love" embrace of the Iraqi people come to an end. Let the healing begin.

:eyes:

[Old and In the Way]

6. We are only there to protect the oil.

Since the Iraqi's don't seem to be inclined to pass the Hydrocarbon law and give Big Oil the rights legally, we'll have to stay until they do.....or until Bush leaves or is impeached.