Good Enough for me:
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned earlier this week of the collapse of the government if the Americans leave. But [Prime Minister] al-Maliki told reporters Saturday, “We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility completely in running the security file if the international forces withdraw
at any time they want.”
We want now.
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BAGHDAD (AP) – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, said the number of Iraqi batallions able to operate on their own without U.S. support has dropped in recent months from ten to six, though he said the fall was in part due to attrition from stepped-up offensives.
There should be plenty of space in Iraq for 160,000 US troops, as 4,000,000 Iraqi’s have fled their country to neigboring states due to insecurity, their lives in mortal danger. Once the ‘Coalition of the Willing‘ has left Iraq, the country will have transformed from a secular state under a dictator to a theocracy with Shia Islamic rule under Iranian influence. [Article of The Guardian dated April 2003 called it a nightmare scenario – Oui]
● PM Gordon Brown not joined by the hip with Bush
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."