We broke it, we fix it:

Come up with an honest assessment of how long, how much, and how many. If that means going through a period of Bush posturing ("it was my bright idea, all along"), so-be-it. Be open & honest. Publish for a world audience.

Increase troop numbers and come up with a plan that delivers acceptable levels of security.

publish a timetable for progress towards infrastructure-rebuilding, self-government, basic security. Put in check-points with dates. Put people with names in charge of hitting the check-points. Measure success or failure by hitting or missing the check-points. When check-points are missed, or if it looks like they will be missed, put together a tiger-team to figure out how to get back on track.

Get the Iraqis involved. Get them making decisions that matter ASAP. Encourage them to make decisions that we don't agree with, and do it their way rather than ours.

Start polling Iraqis now. Give them referendums of increasing importance and (again) abide by their decisions.

Quit treating them paternalisticaly. Act like guests in their country rather than conquerers. (more a question of the rhetoric of our leaders, than the behavior of the troops)

Trouble-shoot what will go wrong, before it happens, and keep it from happening.

Get the international community invloved, even if it takes eating portions of French and German shit. Overlook some crimes committed in the past (or leave them to the respective countries to fix). Just get the task done.

Get US troops out of SA and any other Arabic country where they are not specifically welcomed.

Quit kissing Sharon's ass.