We haven't even begun a war and yet, we already have plans for what to do with Iraq once we've displaced Sadam Hussein. (cocky bastards, aren't we?)

We have a plan worked out for postwar occupation similar to the model that was used in Japan after WW2. It would begin with an American military commander led government--most likely General Tommy Franks who is the Commander of U.S. Forces in the Persian Gulf.

It is clear that the U.S. does not want to have anti-Hussein forces in command initally and may occupy Iraq for quite a considerable amount of time. Until now it had been assumed that like in Afghanistan, Iraqi dissidents both inside and out of the country would form a government. Officials have stated that they want to avoid chaos and in-fighting that has been problematic since the removal of Taliban leadership in Afghanistan. Bush wants full control while American forces carry out their principal mission: finding and destroying Hussein's stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. (yeah, right.)

And this is the part that's glossed over by administration officials:

As long as an American led government is in place of Iraq we would essentially control the second largest proven reserves of oil in the world, nearly 11%. A senior administration official said the UN oil-for-food program would be expanded to help finance stabilzation and reconstruction. No crap! Really, we can get a ton of oil out of Iraq by just helping them re-build? Wow, let's keep that transitional government in place for a while yet! *mmmmmmmm* Oil.

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I also read some of the recorded comments made by Senators both opposing and supporting the proposal of use of force against Iraq. Most of them need to be followed by some smartass junior senator shouting, "No Shit, Sherlock! Tell me something I hadn't figured out!"

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Hockey season has begun. Joel Wick got NHL Center Ice which allows the boy to watch up to forty games a week. I think my head would explode if I watched forty hockey games a week. Either that or Allison would cave it in *with* the television before announcing, "enough hockey already!"