The unity of the country, the forward progress of the country, would be lost.

The unity of the country, the forward progress of the country would be lost. There are elements of ethnic cleansing, getting a minority community out of an area so that the majority community can take over, in certain parts of Iraq.

But they would be unwise just to shoo the coalition out, because they cannot handle the army and the police areas on their own – it would give too much advantage to the people perpetrating violence.

One could almost call it a low-level civil war already.

If they left, in the short term there would be an increase in violence.