Iraqis.
A recent BBC poll shows that, internationally, the greatest level of popular support for the continued U.S./Coalition presence in Iraq comes from Iraqis. Two thirds of Iraqis want Coalition forces to remain for at least 6 months to a year, or until an elected Iraqi government is in power and security restored. That is a substantially greater level of popular support than is to be found in any of the European or Middle Eastern nations separately polled in recent weeks (where most respondents would like someone to take America into a dark alley and put a bullet in its head).
So who would be served by the kind of hasty withdrawl of Coalition forces advocated by most of the citizens of most of the world's liberal democracies?
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