On Friday after prayers, demonstrators in Adhamiya, a Sunni stronghold in Baghdad, chanted, "Leave, leave, occupier!" And a few hundred people demonstrated Saturday against the Americans in Ramadi, in Sunni-dominated Anbar Province Under the terms of the security agreement, the Iraqi government would have to ask the United States to stay on.
Rising house prices mean there are fewer of them, leaving owner-occupiers as a more elderly bunch (see chart).
The Pentagon's insistence on keeping troop numbers low left the occupiers too few men to stop the looting of 17 out of 23 ministries in the Iraqi capital.
The Islamists would once again rally support as the main resistance to the hated occupiers, whilst leaving Mr Abbas looking more like the stooge.Centrist Israelis would settle for periodic missions designed to tamp down Hamas—"mowing the lawn" they call it.
And as Peace City devolves into lawlessness, the most committed occupiers are leaving.
Although many Occupiers are leaving their tents, if anything, their influence on community organizations, student groups and labor unions is only growing stronger.
Occupier!" Before leaving Bishkek, I visited a rugged glacial park called Ala-Archa.
As the present occupier was leaving and I was entering, I noticed it was Elizabeth Taylor, whose beautiful eyes I saw up close and personal.
Two security guards stood by, and the occupiers left with little incident, witnesses said.
If the occupiers left, or so the argument went, so would the reason for fighting.
