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    17 days ago

    Politicians making decisions based on public opinion has a lot of cause and effect relation. By all accounts it would have been easier to maintain a 40k to 100k presence in Iraq than it was to pack everything up and leave.

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        1. People opposed the pointless war whose only winners were Exxo n Mobil.

        2. People voted the party who started the war out of power.

        3. The opposition party withdrew from the region.