[JPost] - Against the backdrop of the 9.0-magnitude man-made earthquake that was the disastrous US pullout from Afghanistan, two Christian leaders, Pastor Johnnie Moore and Juliana Taimoorazy, convened a news conference last week under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. With the participation of Jameel Chomer, country director of the Yazda organization, via Zoom from Iraq, we released an open letter to the president of the United States urging him not to repeat the Afghanistan humanitarian debacle in Iraq.
Signed by Chomer and Taimoorazy, founder and president of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, it read in part:
"Mr. President, we urge you to resist pressure to withdraw all troops from Iraq. Recent blood-soaked history has shown that without such a presence, the history of Assyrians and Yazidis on their ancient lands would end."
...In 2003, about the time of the invasion of Iraq, there were 1.5 million Assyrian Christians, who are among the world’s oldest Christian communities, in the world. Today, there remain 150,000 Assyrian Christians in their homeland. The numbers of Yazidis shrank from 600,000 to 400,000.
Thank you president Bush.
...on July 27, Joe Biden, now president, announced the remaining symbolic US forces will be leaving Iraq again "for good."
...If President Biden doesn’t cancel that move, two historic peoples — the Assyrian Christians and Yazidis — will be no more. And the keys to Nineveh plains will surely be scooped up by Iran with a long coveted strategic prize — an unfettered route to the Mediterranean Sea and a new powerful front to threaten the very existence of another people, the nation of Israel.
I suppose the people in Israel whose job it is been running scenarios of what happens when (no ifs about it) USA leaves since the day the invasion been announced. 
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