Reply #38: You didn't read it, the nationalists are gaining strength and

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have evolved from "non-binding" resolutions to "binding resolutions" -- they are uniting their nation, despite efforts of the US which Biden supports, to separate them, divide them. Their largest union, the Oil workers union, is behind the nationalists, what the hell does that tell you. The nationalists want timetables and want us out of their nation. The only comparision that can be made to Afghanistan is that our government backed and is backing the current Afghanistan government that is failing, you know the same folks backing the separatist in Iraq are backing the Afghanistan government. What's that tell ya?

It is their nation and they have the right to govern it as they please, as their majority dictates. It is not our place to tell them how to govern their nation. IT IS NOT OUR PLACE TO TELL THEM HOW TO GOVERN THEMSELVES. The mischief makers are there, trying to make it fail because WE ARE THERE. We built it and they came.

Good God almighty, it is not our place to tell the Iraqis how to live and it is not our oil.