After the War - What?

NYTimes -- U.S. Is Completing Plan to Promote a Democratic Iraq

President Bush's national security team is assembling final plans for administering and democratizing Iraq after the expected ouster of Saddam Hussein. Those plans call for a heavy American military presence in the country for at least 18 months, military trials of only the most senior Iraqi leaders and quick takeover of the country's oil fields to pay for reconstruction.

"We know one thing," said a diplomat involved in the planning. "Things will have to come together a lot faster than they have in Afghanistan."

18 months is insufficient time for anything but a dictatorship or a weak undemocratic pawn.