A Witness to Terror

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it is an interview with an Iraqi who escaped, his name is Jesse Kaveh. Here's an excerpt:

Kaveh: If the American Left achieved its objective in getting an immediate withdrawal, Iraq would be a bloodbath – and much more than that. Iraqis would be slaughtered in the millions and it would turn into a regional war. There is no doubt that with a power vacuum of that sort, Syria, Iran and other terrorist states would all try to gain as much power as possible due to the vast oil wealth Iraq has. There would also obviously be horrible ethnic rivalries.

A terrorist state, like the one the Taliban controlled, with vast oil resources and Iran as its neighbor (with an open and declared weapons of mass destruction stockpile) would lead to a jihad on a worldwide scale that would make 9/11 seem like a slap in the face.

The United States and the Iraqis cannot afford to allow Iraq to fall as it would have direct national security implications. It would also make U.S. foreign policy less credible amongst the Muslim world as well as in terms of Israeli/Palestinian negotiations and above all to the democratic movements throughout the Eiddle East. Above all, we can not allow another South Vietnam and Cambodia to occur in Iraq as a result of the same leftists demanding another withdrawal.