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How to Save Iraq From Civil War
By AYAD ALLAWI, OSAMA AL-NUJAIFI and RAFE AL-ESSAWI
Published: December 27, 2011

Baghdad

IRAQ today stands on the brink of disaster. President Obama kept his campaign pledge to end the war here, but it has not ended the way anyone in Washington wanted. The prize, for which so many American soldiers believed they were fighting, was a functioning democratic and nonsectarian state. But Iraq is now moving in the opposite direction — toward a sectarian autocracy that carries with it the threat of devastating civil war....

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Originally posted by canttakesky:
We could withdraw our support of Maliki. Whatever that's worth.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

At this point I really don't think we *can* prevent it, all that any further effort is gonna do is delay the inevitable.
I say we get the hell out and take our lumps, instead of continuing to meddle, that never goes well.

-F

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