"Don't lose heart if a breach of security occurs here or there," Maliki told leaders from the ethnic Turkmen community, reiterating a warning that insurgents were likely to try to take advantage of the U.S. pullback to launch more attacks.
And:
Hours after Maliki spoke, a suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives as worshippers left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque near the northern city of Kirkuk, a city contested by Arabs, Turkmen and Kurds and which sits over vast oil reserves.
But that wasn't supposed to happen! We've been hearing for years that all the terrorism in Iraq was because of U.S. troops on the ground, and if we left, the terrorism would end.
Guess the Left was wrong (again). Islamic terrorism is the enemy of all democracies, regardless of religious majority. Money and fighting for resources are the causes of almost all wars. They were right about one thing: It's all about the oillll. Guess that's true in Iraq!
H/t Drudge.
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