If we leave Iraq now, it will become a new Killing Fields.

Americans can not leave the Iraqi people to the mercy of the insurgents. The Democrats that keep calling for a pull out of US and coalition troops are advocating the genocide of the Iraqi people. The Iraqi's are terrified that the US will leave and let the radicals have their way. If it looks as if the US will leave Iraq before the Iraqi government can handle security on its own, the moderate Iraqis will not support the democratically elected government. They have to think about their families and their fear of reprisals is understandable. Saddam Hussein punished the Kurds for their uprising after the US encouraged them to rebel. The US left the Kurds to be slaughtered by the thousands after the first gulf war. Iraqi insurgents have proven themselves merciless and are extremely well armed. They will slaughter every Iraqi that has cooperated with the current government. The fundamentalists will kill the educated classes, like they are already doing. They have been killing doctors and students. It will be like the killing fields of Cambodia, all over again.