Was to design for them a government, hand them their constitution, and let them run with it, amend it or whatever; but live with it as their basis for government. Douglass MacArthur handed the task of designing this government to Col. Courtney Whitney on his staff and he completed the task in less than one month.

The Iragiis should have been gifted with their "democracy" within a structure provided by us and allowed their self determination to use compromise to adjust this structure to suit their best interests.

Letting the inmates design their own regulations is probably a bad idea whose time has come.

Publius