Ok, now you make a lot of sense. This is the same approach I am leaning toward. I love the "olive drab veto" line by the way. You sir are a wordsmith.
This appears to be our new mission in Iraq...it is crazy IMO...it is exactly the kind of action that is going to allow a whole bunch of states within Iraq to grow and become terrorist farms. Let's do what we do whenever we unseat a government...put in a powerful new leader, who may well be as bad as Sadaam, and let him rule with an iron fist, but who will be on our side for at least a few decades until we start arming their opposition. I'm not being cynical, I'm serious...if Iraq isn't ready for democracy, and in a place like this I agree it is a lot to swallow, give them something they can swallow.
But we can never walk away..unless we microchip every citizen there for world monitoring...because a new Osama and co. has been born there somewhere...