Plan for Peace in Iraq

The Sans Fromage has a plan for getting the U.S. out of Iraq. It is essential that the elections in January take place. It doesn’t matter how corrupt or how unrepresentative the elections are but once the results are known the U.S. will announce that democracy has triumphed and the U.S. mission has been accomplished. The U.S. then pulls out all of the troops, declares victory and with heads firmly in the sand, ignoring any evidence to the contrary, the Bush administration will pat themselves on the back for another job well done. The elected government in Iraq, most probably headed by that well fed puppet Ghazi al-Yawar, will be embattled and eventually, in less than a year, be forced to flee into exile to Paris where the puppet will live a cozy existence, backed by a stipend paid by the US and by the Swiss account he set up of absconded US funds, with the puppet occasionally making noises in the press about returning to establish the legitimate government in Iraq while suffering gout and clogged arteries from all of that rich French food he dines on. Iraq will then be ruled by some theocracy that will force the country down to the level of Afghanistan. The U.S. will bemoan the failure of the Iraqi people to uphold the great democracy they established and will look down their noses at the crude, ignorant people. Eventually the heat of the theocracy will cool and some deal will be brokered, behind the scenes, with the U.S. buying oil from the corrupt leaders of the country, who will squirrel away the money into Swiss accounts for future Paris retirement.