Kuwaiti emir warns against U.S. pullout from Iraq

Memo to the cut and run Democrats and all of the critics of the current policy in Iraq. Read this and take it for what it is, the truth about us leaving Iraq in the current state that it is in.

Kuwaiti emir warns against U.S. pullout from Iraq

PARIS — A U.S. pullout from Iraq would prompt a civil war with global repercussions, the emir of neighboring Kuwait warned in an interview published today.
Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah urged U.S. forces to pull out of Iraqi cities and occupy their periphery instead, a proposal he said he has frequently discussed with President Bush. The tiny Persian Gulf emirate of about 1 million people is a strong U.S. ally.
"In the current circumstances, an American withdrawal would in no way help bring back stability," Sheik Sabah, who is on a state visit to France on his first trip to Europe as ruler, told the daily Le Figaro.
"On the contrary, the situation would get worse, and we would experience a civil war of great intensity that the whole world would pay the price for," he said. His country would be among those to suffer from such a civil war, he added.
Sheikh Sabah, who became leader of Kuwait in January, was meeting with French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday as part of a visit expected to focus on economic ties and renewed tensions in the Middle East.
French officials said the two nations were expected to update a bilateral defense pact in place since 1993, two years after the Gulf War, which liberated Kuwait from a seven-month Iraqi occupation. France was a key ally in the U.S.-led coalition that fought the war — but Paris strongly opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Economic ties were also on the emir's agenda. French firms are looking for increased business in the aerospace, infrastructure, oil and public works sectors in Kuwait.

See there it is from one of the regional leaders. We need to stay there and make sure that when we leave the government is stable. He also proposes a smart idea about getting the US troops out of the cities and have them help secure the borders and clean things up that way. Not a bad bit of common sense from a leader of a country.