We simply can't want to be in Iraq more than the Iraqis want us to be there. That poll of Iraqis, conducted by the BBC and other news organizations, found that only 22 percent of Iraqis support the presence of coalition troops in Iraq, down from 32 percent in 2005.If Iraqis were pleading with us to stay and quell the violence, maybe we would have a moral responsibility to stay. But when Iraqis are begging us to leave, and saying that we are making things worse, then it's remarkably presumptuous to overrule their wishes and stay indefinitely because, as President Bush termed it in his speech on Tuesday, "it is necessary work."
So it's in the interests of the governments of Iraq and the US to keep the war going but not in the interests of the people of either country.
Guess who wins...
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Comments (2)
Fah, BBC push-polling.
The Iraqis want us there until their society is peaceful, then they want us to leave. We'll leave when Sistani wants us gone, and not a moment sooner or later.
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1. Posted by kim | July 13, 2007 2:06 PM
Posted on July 13, 2007 14:06
kim, call for you on line 5. It's Ayatollah Sistani -- he says we can leave now...
2. Posted by Lea Ward, kim's secretary | July 13, 2007 2:30 PM
Posted on July 13, 2007 14:30