Jay Tea at Wizbang lays out a pretty good end game scenario for after we are forced to pull out of Iraq. You think folks are being killed now, just wait until we leave.
President Bush is planning on vetoing the Iraq funding bill, citing the presence So, just what would happen if the United States withdrew from Iraq?
Initially, I think it would be fairly calm. There would be some attacks against our forces, as the various and sundry factions would each try to get the "final" attack on us that gives them the bragging rights for "driving out the infidels."
After that, though, there would be a brief calm period, as the factions work out their strategies.
It would be the calm before the storm - or, as a certain French monarch said, "le deluge."
"Bloodbath" would be a bit of an understatement.
The first victims of the carnage would be those people who had the foolish audacity to trust in the United States, who were a part of the current government and cooperated with us. I'm just pulling numbers out of the air here, but I'd speculate that 80% would be executed - probably in as grisly a way as possible. Another 10% would flee the nation, but 10% or so would be kept as figureheads and tokens to provide a "beard" or "fig leaf" for whatever form of government emerges.
He goes on from there. It ain't gonna be pretty. It's a good,if not frightening, read.
VW
Sounds like what happened to the Montagnard tribesmen who supported the US in Vietnam and were murdered after the US pulled out.
Posted by: BobF | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 14:41
What if the people used those Weapons of Mass Destruction to protect themselves from the jihadists????
Posted by: canuckistani | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 18:24