Some are happy, but there are also regrets their departure because of alarming increase in violence that still plagued the oil-rich country. Muhammad Ali, for example. Traders were concerned, the place for a living, a crowded market in downtown, will often get attacks. The market was shaken three times the big explosion that killed several orang.Dinding concrete that initially protect the market stalls that had collapsed.
"This place will be easy targets car bomb," said Muhammad, who lost two brothers in the harshest masamasa conflict for nearly nine years. "People will die here." The New YorkTimes said, some people in Iraq refuse to believe that U.S. troops actually go from negaranya.Penolakan this is the effect of mindset that developed after living for years under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein which was broadcast as well as historical view of colonialism and injustice at the hands of the West.
"Iraq will be a great place if the U.S. retreated," Rani said Basil, a taxi driver in Baghdad.Tapi, he was not convinced that his dream would come true. "I think the U.S. will not leave Iraq because they will attack Iran," he said . In war-torn Falluja, the Sunni call this city as the Hiroshima Iraq -, residents celebrated the withdrawal of U.S. troops with mass demonstrations, speeches anger, burning U.S. flags and a gallery exhibition of photographs of children with disabilities, homes destroyed and Another sign that referred to residents as bitter legality of the U.S. invasion.
"A great happiness because the U.S. will go," said Mohammed Adnan, 35. "Hopefully, we'll all be okay, we are Iraqis. We were fine before 2003. "Not everybody was fine before 2003. After the failed Shia uprising at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam executed tens of thousands of people, mainly Kurds and Shiites. Aesthetically, Baghdad is still a war zone checkpoints, concrete walls and barbed wire, buildings partly destroyed by the first wave of bombing the so-called U.S. President George W. Bush was "shocking and amazing".
Even so, life in Iraq began to improve in several aspects. Living in Baghdad is more developed in recent years, street life has returned, again crowded market, and opened a new amusement park, even the circus came to town that year. Nuri al-Maliki was elected in elections last year that international observers called free from cheating.
U.S. Citizen Not Support the War
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq was also warmly welcomed U.S. citizens. If in the early days of the invasion, in March 2003, approximately 70% of residents expressed support for the war and consider it to be true with 25% opposed it, then 9 years later, that number turned.
In a CNN poll that was held last month, 68% of respondents said the U.S. opposed the war in Iraq with only 29% who support it. A poll conducted last month's CBS News also showed almost identical results. Approximately 67% of respondents rated the Iraq war was sepandan to sacrifice the lives of U.S. troops and cost lainnya.Hanya 24%, including some Republicans, do not agree. Although not support the Iraq war, most U.S. citizens then question the future of that country so soldiers Uncle Sam's country home to their country.
According to a poll held by NBC News / Wall Street Journal, released this week, 21% of respondents predict Iraq "is" at risk of civil war and 31% of respondents predict Iraq "seems to be" experienced civil war after the withdrawal of troops the same AS. major opportunities called Iraq "a bit" to achieve a stable democracy (32%) and "very not going to" achieve a stable democracy (28%).
Furthermore, a poll conducted the same institution last month found about 71% of respondents believe U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw all troops to war in Iraq that now is the right decision with only 24% who disagreed. Apparently the U.S. public are fed up with the war in Iraq. However, this view is different from the views of U.S. politicians. Republican Senator John McCain and Lindsay Graham as well as neo-conservatives like Fred Kagan and other sharp critics such as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN) John Bolton criticized Obama's decision was in the past week.
According to them, Obama failed to follow advice given by commanders to use strong pressure on Maliki to agree to maintain at least 14,000 U.S. troops in Iraq to continue to act as a buffer between Kurds and Arabs in the north, maintaining pressure on the government for "national reconciliation", quell the influence Iran and ensure that the threat from Al Qaeda insurgents likely be faced with ease.
The plan was rejected when the Iraqis refused to grant legal immunity from the court in Iraq against U.S. troops remaining in the country.
