The faces that we are not seeing are the 1.5 million Iraqi refugees from the war stranded in Syria and Jordan or the 2+ million displaced within Iraq as a result of the sectarian violence.
Most of these 4+ million (12-15% of the Iraqi population) have no home to come home to.
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Five years into the US military intervention in Iraq, the country is dealing with one of the largest humanitarian and displacement crises in the world. Millions of Iraqis have fled their homes – either for safer locations within Iraq, or to other countries in the region – and are living in increasingly desperate circumstances. Failure to address the needs of Iraqis will have dramatic impacts on security inside Iraq.
http://www.refintl.org/where-we-work/middle-east/iraq
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The new Iraq democracy is a good thing, despite the cost in US and Iraqi lives and US $billions. But they still face enormous challenges, mostly political and economic in which the continued large US military occupation cant help.
Its time for the US to get out in an orderly and reasonably short term time frame....according to the wishes of both the Iraqi people and the American people.