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If we pull out now, as we did in Vietnam, it will be an invitation to disaster for Iraq. Listening to NPR over lunch, a senior fellow from the Brookings Institute said that we will probably be in Iraq until the end of the decade. A sobering thought.
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End of the decade is an extreme under-estimate. Looking at it from my standpoint (and looking at history) we won't be out of there for half a century-hinging on if the next few Presidents decide to stick to their guns. Iraq makes a perfect base of operations for future manuevers. Like it's been pointed out before, we are still in Japan and Germany and it's been close to 60 yrs.
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Those people don't care about anything. They have only known violence since the beginning of their existence, it will be impossible to 'educate' them. They view the demise of Sadaam as an opening in the power chain. The men live a life of self-centered indulgence. They rule their woman, and any other women that may cross their path. My husband said that a soldier waved to a girl (probably about 15), and she then got beat with a stick by her LITTLE brother...they guessed 11. I also heard that most of the men have a boyfriend as well as a wife. The wives are solely for reproduction. My husband is an MP and saw some pretty disturbing things...along the lines of a Michael Jackson sleep over. Which he said he's found is VERY common.
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I've heard all that also. They treat their women like slaves-but that's b/c of their religious leaders that are total fanatics. The men are the leaders and they are extemely sexist. A women in power is a threat to them, so they don't let it happen.
Going back before Saddam's rule, Iraq had...better women's rights (good for the time period) and it had one of the highest educated populations in the Middle-east. When Saddam took over all the educated citizens moved out and women's right's were taken away.
It's going to take at LEAST a generation to fix their socities problems, maybe two. That's just what it takes.