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Old 08-09-2005, 05:02 PM   #14
Chewbacca
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Join Date: July 18, 2001
Location: America, On The Beautiful Earth
Age: 51
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Originally posted by shamrock_uk:

Chewie - the reason we can't leave Iraq now is that we would end up with another Iran. With the legitimate political parties that are in place at the moment the country is already extremely close to Tehran (which, incidentally, has rather pleased the Iranians - we've tamed their mortal enemy for them). If the insurgents were allowed to gain complete control of the country then actual legislation would become radicalised and we would probably end up with unrestrained Sharia law which I don't think anyone would wish for.

Result: egg on our faces. Tens of thousands killed to create a country whose policy-makers are far more religious and far more dangerous to the west (from a terrorism point of view) than the previous regime ever was.

So we can't leave until the Iraqi armed forces are at least able to stand on their own two feet.

Even putting aside the 'egg on our face' theory, we have promised Iraq democracy and many of them have bought into that dream. Would you really subject the Shia to another tragically broken promise after what happened in 1991?
Hey I did say foriegn troops need to leave ASAP not immediately.
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