What One Reporter Thinks Would Happen if US Troops Leave Iraq

Now before you put yourself on blow-up, the reporter is from the Treason Times (the ultimate sign of liberal credibility!)

John Burns of The New York Times — who is considered the best print reporter on the beat in Iraq — disagrees with Democrats and other administration critics who think a U.S. troop withdrawal would make things better in Iraq.

Burns told Charlie Rose — "It seems to me incontrovertible that the most likely outcome of an American withdrawal any time soon would be cataclysmic violence."

Burns says the Sunni minority has the most to lose. He said one senior American official told him that Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hasimi — when told of the serious possibility of a withdrawal — said — "then we will all be slaughtered."
Cutting and Running is Stupid

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Wow, look, two perfect examples of closemindedness on both sides of the political bloodbath within two posts! How neat.

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The fact that he reports for the NY Times isn't good enough?

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Oh shut up, geek. ;-}

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I just think, maybe, if we all just took our guard down for once and didn't automatically resort to schoolyard insults, we would all be better off and maybe actually have some decent political debate.

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That was ALWAYS going to happen when Saddam was overthrown. Every mideast and near-eastern scholar knew that the only thing that was keeping the Sunni and Shiites from slaughtering each other was a dictator.

The same thing was true in Yugoslavia--look what happened there after Tito.

The only idiots who thought they could instill democracy in Iraq were Bush and Cheney and their gang of neocons.

Funny they would think that, while at the same time dismantling so many aspects of AMERICAN democracy, starting with the Constitution.

I'm a student of the Near East. I don't think the bloodbath will be much worse than what's going on now. But I do think Iraq will be divided into three or four ethnically ruled nations: Sunni-stan, Shiite-stan and Kurdistan. (The 4th would be controlled by Halliburton, let's call it Oil-stan.)

The real bloodbath would be in Kurdistan, which would be savagely attacked and possibly annexed by Turkey.

And, yes, the whole damn thing will be George Bush's fault.

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That's because you didn't bother to read anything John Burns said or listen to him talk to Charlie Rose. You just repeated what you found on Fox News.

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Obama basically says if their is a bloodbath there is nothing we can do about it

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THERE IS NO PAPER CALLED THE TREASON TIME YOU STUPID PIECE OF DOG _____. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR THIRD GRADE NAMECALLING. GOT IT?

No more will I post on a thread that you have besmirched with your third grade attempts at wit.

Begone.

Updated On: 7/21/07 at 07:27 PM