I'm not going to say 'if the US leaves Iraq' - it has to be inevitable right? I mean we know that the only reason we are still there is because
- George Bush doesn't to be on record as having "lost" a war
- The Republicans want to make sure that job of leaving and cleaning up will be done on the Democrats time - guaranteeing that Republicans can blame Democrats for screwing up Iraq. Within a decade you can rest assured most Americans will believe that it was the Democrats who invaded Iraq in the first place.
My biggest worry is that surely if the US pulls out then why on Earth wont the Iranian just roll in their tanks the next day? They have been busy keeping the diplomats busy rattling their nuclear option, but in the mean time all they have to do is invade Iraq and get all that oil and a strategic increase in land and Shiite followers for the cause. Even better because the Americans did the exact same thing they can do it themselves with impunity because
- The Americans already made a case for unilateral preemptive strikes
- They can simply cite "spreeding freedom" as the justification
- The Americans' already wiped out any ability for Iraq to defend itself
- There is no way the Americans will return once they pull out
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