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Iraq Exit Strategy
Al Qaeda in Iraq issued a statement Saturday warning Sunni Arabs that voting in the referendum on the constitution would be equivalent to rejecting Islam
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So why don't we just add another question to the referendum - "Do you want the Americans and British to leave the country?"
That gives all the opponents to the occupation a vested interest in the referendum.
If they refuse to campaign for it, they will very clearly seen by the world at large but most importantly, by the Iraqi community, as wanting to keep the Americans there for the purpose of continuing the fight. They will be put in the position of rejecting democracy even when it offers a peaceful solution to the conflict. Very difficult to sell in the Arab Street.
If they campaign and lose, that won't stop them fighting, but it will dramatically reduce local support for them and give the western powers a legitimate mandate to stay until the job is done properly and Iraq is genuinely capable of conducting its own affairs without breakdown into Civil War.
If they campaign and win, the western powers can leave without dishonour in accordance with the democratic wishes of the Iraqi people.
The perfect exit strategy.
In fact, you'd have to ask the question:
Why - if this idea is put to them - would they NOT want to include it in the referendum?
Submitted on Mon, 2005-08-08 10:46
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Nice idea.
You'd have to put a timescale on it, though. Otherwise you're into the "Yes, obviously we want to leave, but when it's stable".
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Agreed. Shall we say 6 months from the date of the referendum?
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Ok.
Mind if I borrow your idea to float in a few places in the UK?
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Feel Free - that's the point of posting it here.
Apologies for any delay in replying. I've got my preferences set to alert me to any replies but it doesn't seem to work so I only get to see a reply if I check manually!
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It's too late to consider leaving Iraq, certainly with any sence of "honour". The "Coalition of the willing" is now being seen to be be thrown out.
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You are quite correct it way too late for leaving this is case of survival and the enemy is not Islam it is the religious zealots of Iran and their desire to control the World starting with the Middle East we have seen their works in Lebanon and Iraq their proxy wars there are an example of just what is planned for the rest of us either conform with the will of Iran or be decimated
Wake up before it is too late for all of us how many more bombs in our cities will take for the people of western democracies to realize the clock is already ticking
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The Western Democracies never wake up until it is too late. Then they pay a terrible price for their folly.
Radical Islam is the enemy of liberal democracy and slowly but surely this will dawn on the liberal left. Alas by then it will be too late. Like the Bourbon's they have forgotten nothing and learnt nothing.
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