clipped from: www.timesonline.co.uk There are fears that a premature departure will lead to a return of sectarian violence or allow al-Qaeda to re-establish itself. Many would like the Americans to remain until security is restored permanently.
“After you guys pull out from the city I don’t know what our enemies are going to do,Thaban Hassan said. The head of an Iraqi Army battalion in Baquba, he told the American soldiers gathered in his office that “safety is not 100 per cent . . . why are the Americans leaving?”
“If it was up to me,” a US army captain said, “we would stay in the city, take a more active role, even.”
Americans are not stupid. We noticed that there was no concern among the Iraqis for the 300,000+ Iraqis who were slaughtered under Saddam Hussein’s regime. Delivering Iraq from that evil should have counted for something.