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This is an opinion item.
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Juan Cole
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Source
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The Nation
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Date
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April 9, 2007
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URL
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/cole
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"The key to preventing an intensified civil war is US withdrawal from the equation so as to force the parties to an accommodation. Therefore, the United States should announce its intention to withdraw its military forces from Iraq, which will bring Sunnis to the negotiating table and put pressure on Kurds and Shiites to seek a compromise with them. But a simple US departure would not be enough; the civil war must be negotiated to a settlement, on the model of the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Lebanon."
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This item argues for the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.