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bullseyebarb · 26-11-2007, 19:22

No. Things are really turning around there now and it would be a huge mistake to leave. Change is coming from the bottom up. Local and regional government in Iraq is doing what the national government has not yet accomplished. Recently, I saw a photograph taken at St. John's Church in Baghdad. A group of Muslims and Christians were putting the cross back on the dome of the church. There was an accompanying story by Michael Yon - a reporter who also took the photo. It was positive and uplifting.

In my opinion, a tectonic shift has taken place in the Middle East, because suddenly the Arabs and Israel have a common enemy - Khomeinist Iran. The danger posed by Ahmadi-Nejad seems to have eclipsed all the old antagonisms.....as the current Annapolis meetings may soon reveal - and from which Iran was deliberately excluded.

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bullseyebarb Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Georgia, U.S.A. Posts: 636 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 52	Re: Is it time to pull out of Iraq? No. Things are really turning around there now and it would be a huge mistake to leave. Change is coming from the bottom up. Local and regional government in Iraq is doing what the national government has not yet accomplished. Recently, I saw a photograph taken at St. John's Church in Baghdad. A group of Muslims and Christians were putting the cross back on the dome of the church. There was an accompanying story by Michael Yon - a reporter who also took the photo. It was positive and uplifting. In my opinion, a tectonic shift has taken place in the Middle East, because suddenly the Arabs and Israel have a common enemy - Khomeinist Iran. The danger posed by Ahmadi-Nejad seems to have eclipsed all the old antagonisms.....as the current Annapolis meetings may soon reveal - and from which Iran was deliberately excluded.