Keep to the timetable

Mr. President - some unsolicited advice:

Given that:

1. You've met your objective. You've de-fanged Iraq from their capacity to harm us or cause much mischief in the Mideast. You've verified for the feckless UN that there are not stockpiles of WMD's.

2. They're not our friends. Not the murdering Baathists you deposed and killed or imprisoned with Sadaam. Not the Sunni minority who were on the side of Sadaam. Not the Shia majority who should be grateful for their liberation and instead take up arms against thier liberator. They're Islamic fanatics. All of them. And we should be shed of them.

My recommendation is -

1. Pacify the country. Hard. Right now in April and May. Whatever it takes - gunships, missiles, MOAB's. Establish, as George Will put it this week as the responsibility of government, "a monopoly on violence".

2. Hand the country over to Iraq as promised on June 30.

3. Withdraw. And warn the other terror sponsors on the way out that we'll be back if they didn't learn the lesson.

Return from occupier to liberator and get out. It's the right thing to do. Plus, it will throw the Democrats for a loop and they won't know how to attack you anymore.

Keep your date with history on June 30th.