Their feelings are hurt: Goodbye their love, goodbye

The reactionary tribal elders of Anbar, who treat women like cattle, are hurt: ""The Americans left without even saying goodbye. Not one of them," Sabah said in his villa in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, once the cradle of Iraq's insurgency. "Even when we called them, we got a message that the line had been disconnected."" These are the lynchpin of the American occupation, just as they were the lynchpin of the British occupation.