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Mohammed over at Iraq the Model asked in an October 26, 2006, post headlined "The Amara lesson:
What will happen if the MNF (Multinational Force) are withdrawn prematurely [from Iraq) before the job is done?"Perhaps the lesson from the recent troubles in Amara when militias took over large parts of the city gives a clear answer and offers Iraqis and the allies a forecast of what the future holds for us should we make the wrong decisions.
The wrong decision was made on March 20, 2003, when the U.S. invaded Iraq. Many Americans were deceived into supporting the invasion. However, now that the extent of the deception and wrongness of the war is evident, many will not tolerate their sons and daughters dying year-after-year in Iraq.
And since all occupiers leave sooner of later, now is a good time for the U.S. to leave. So, whether Mohammed likes it or not, he and other Iraqis will be on their own and at the mercy of the forces from hell unleashed by Operation Iraqi Freedom. Iraqis had only one power to fear when Saddam Hussein was in power. Now, they don't know if they will be killed by Iraqi insurgents, militiamen, criminals, Al-Qaeda or the Americans. Regardless of who kills them, they're just as dead.
