Making the last mistake in Iraq

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Author(s) Tony Blankley
Source The Washington Times
Date November 22, 2006
URL http://www3.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20061121-083639-7479r.htm
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Quotes-start.png "But if, as it is hard to imagine otherwise, our departure from Iraq yields civil war, chaos, war lordism and terrorist safe havens — it is very likely that Iran will lurch in to harvest their advantages, Turkey will send in its army to stop an independent Kurdistan and Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the other Sunni states will be sucked in to fend off Shi'ite Iran's hegemony. In that nightmare maelstrom, the 20 million barrels a day of oil shipped from the Persian Gulf — and the world economy with it — will be in daily risk of being cut off." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.