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Originally posted by occrider No. Nature abhors a vaccuum, as history has demonstrated time and time again. Look, Flotser is absolutely right. Criticize and villify the Bush administration all you want for starting this mess, but there's no room for half-ass measures once the decision was made. If you want to truly see the Iraqi people suffer than remove the US troops, enjoy the power struggles, and take bets as to which extremist faction garners enough support through coercsion to consolidate power. It'll add to the history books quite nicely.

True.

The way it is now, whether you like it or not, Iraq is under some kind of control, as ragged as it may be. If the American troops up and go at some point in the night, tere will be a power vacuum. Warlords will rise to takw power and it'll be a fight between militias. If that ahppens, the country will destabilize again and the deaths of those 1,000 troops (RIP) will have been in vain.
Afghanistan, before the Taliban came to power, was much like the way Iraq would be if it was left up to the warlords. A 24/7 battlefield where NO ONE cares about the people and EVERYONE is fighting for power. That's unacceptable.

And for those of you who say that it's great that 1,000 American troops are dead then shame on you. If you want to aim your anger at someone for this war then blame Bush and his administration, not the troops. They are fighting someone else's war, not their own. This is their job, they aren't out there on their own time. These are men and women the same age as many of the TA's. Don't hate them, that's wrong.

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