US Marines are in Fallujah only with the permission of a former Republican Guard general. If he went, there doesn't seem to be any reason it wouldn't revert to the previous conflict.

What happens on June 30? Even though the government which takes over will be an American puppet, the folks who are most likely to run it have demonstrated amazing independence so far.

If they start suggesting the US leave, as one of them is suggesting the US get out of the prisons, will folks like that general stick with the Americans, or behave like an Iraqi?

I don't know. I suspect he could be bribed enough to stay with the US until his troops, the great unbribed, became restless.

Hard to tell, though. It's nice to know it's on-plan. GWB can't think of any mistakes he's made. Apparently he must have known there weren't any WMD.

Arf