‘The US has a duty to leave behind peace not chaos when troops finally withdraw from Iraq. We desire, we ask, and we scream for peace and security,’ said Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad in an interview with Vatican Radio on August 19th. The last of the US combat troops left Iraq earlier this month formally ending Operation Iraqi Freedom. About 50,000 US troops will remain in Iraq until the end of 2011 to continue training and assisting Iraqi security forces. Bishop Warduni said: ‘There are no jobs; there are car bombs, kamikaze attacks and acts of violence.’ He also expressed concern about the political deadlock between Iraqi leaders unable to form a government since parliamentary elections in March. ‘It's very difficult to live somewhere where there is no law and no government, terrorist elements take advantage of the lack of a stable central authority and come and go as they please.’

Pray: for democracy to be taught and a strong, stable government be birthed (Is.51:4)

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