Add in "try to put something together such that it doesn't collapse into anarchy the minute we leave", and you'll really be on to something. Of course, you'll have left Pat far, far behind in that case ;)
At this point we are cut-and-pasting some sort of Gummint there. Delivery date is June. But our military stays until March 05, right? Hmmmmm.
But we have three distinct nations: the Kurds, the Baathists, and the Shiites; exactly how long will our military be required to keep those factions apart? And WHY is it OUR military, and Britain's (and a few stragglers)?
The alternative, of course, is simply to admit that we intend to keep a large garrison in Iraq forever, to replace what we lost in Saudi, as a power-projection necessity.
But nobody's admitted that, yet.