UN Secretary General Warns Against Iraq Pullout

By Jonathan Williams

Its quite sad to see the UN taking a stand for freedom while all we want to do is pullout of Iraq.

So alarming are the implications of an American debacle in Iraq, that the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, felt the urge to intervene last Monday and warn: “Great caution should be taken for the sake of [the] Iraqi people. The international community cannot and should not abandon them. Any abrupt withdrawal or decision may lead to a further deterioration of the situation in Iraq.” An Iraqi tribal leader fighting Al-Qaeda who was recently interviewed by the BBC Arabic service said more or less the same thing. If the United States withdrew from Iraq, he warned, his men would find it difficult to defeat their adversaries.

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  1. [...] who say that this war is “unjust” and that we should leave now, are not considering the amount of Iraqi lives that would be lost if we did. Even if we shouldn’t have gotten into this war in the first place, we owe it to [...]

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