AND-- To anyone who thinks our soldiers are the terrorists. This goes to you, FUCKERS!
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
August 26, 2007
U.S. Troops Must Not Withdraw
Iraqi people concerned their voice won't be heard
By Maggy Zanger, Special to the Arizona Daily Star
ERBIL, IRAQ--In the run-up to the mid-September progress report on Iraq, pundits, military commanders, presidential candidates, and seemingly every member of Congress who ever spent a few hours in the Green Zone, have weighed in on the efficacy, or not, of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
Missing from the debate, however, is one of the most crucial voices: the Iraqi people.
"If they leave, it will burn like hell," says Abdul Karim Khalil Malallah who once translated for the U.S. military police, but fled the violent chaos of Baghdad with his family last summer for the safer environs of Iraqi Kurdistan.
In dozens of interviews in several cities, Iraqi Muslims and Christians, Arabs, Kurds and Assyrians — people who would argue endlessly on other points of the U.S. occupation of Iraq — are in unanimous agreement on one point: U.S troops should not withdraw from their country.
"It will be a real civil war," says Asos Hardi, editor in chief of Awene (The Mirror), a leading independent Kurdish newspaper in Sulaimaniyah. "It will leave the country in chaos."
The governor of Erbil province, site of the Kurdish regional capital, agrees. "If the U.S. leaves, we must leave with them," says Nawzad Hadi Mawlood. "It will be a tragedy if they go."
Many fear that if the U.S .military leaves, the government in Baghdad would collapse — if it doesn't before that — and Shia militias, Sunni insurgency groups and foreign jihadis, each backed by neighboring countries, will scramble to divide Iraq into bloody cantons of control.
"The U.S. at least controls the situation now," says Imad Marbeen Yacoub,who fled Baghdad after paying jizyah, a "Christian tax," of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dinars demanded by men he assumed to be Shia militia members. If the U.S. pulls out, "the civil war will be more and more," he says.
Chew on that cocksucking mother fuckers! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
note: This was taken from an article on my AKO.
♥Zaphara
