WTF Is It Now?!?

Don't forget Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney's Halliburton!
WASHINGTON, March 24 - The United States is preparing to establish immediate sole control of postwar Iraq, initially without recourse to the United Nations, with a civilian administration under the direct command of the military, according to senior administration officials.

Even before American troops reach Baghdad, administration officials are assembling a team of civilian officials, largely retired American diplomats, to run Iraq as soon as the fighting is over. - links here and here.