A Modest Proposal for Iran by Anthony Gregory: "If you think about it, he's the right man for the job. The U.S. government has had a long history working with him. In 1959, he was a CIA asset in an assassination plot; in 1968, the U.S. helped bring his party to victory; and, in 1979, he became president of Iraq with a nod from the U.S. and positioned himself as an anti-Soviet U.S. ally in the Cold War. Throughout the 1980s, the Pentagon and CIA armed, financed and advised his regime in a devastating war against Iran. If we trusted him then to keep the Iranian Mullahs in line, why not trust him now to tame the newly empowered Iraqi Mullahs? He was for years our secular point man and a check against his theocratic neighbors. He can do it all over again, with just a minor change of scenery.

All we have to do is free Saddam from his military prison, fortify 100,000 U.S. troops along the Iraq-Iran border, invade, starting with special forces, take out the major military and government installations with bunker busters, tactical nukes and other precision ordnance – we can call the operation 'Strike and Stun' – and install Saddam as the new supreme leader and president of the Iranian government. The U.S. has picked favorites to run that country before, so it shouldn't be too hard to do again. In fact, it will be a cakewalk. The Iranians, oppressed as they are, will be overjoyed at the sight of American troops and will welcome their liberators with flowers and candy. The invasion and rebuilding can be financed completely from Iranian oil revenues. And the Iranian nuclear weapons program will be neutralized, put under the authority of Saddam, who, as we now know, can be trusted to tell the truth about such matters."

(Via Lew Rockwell.)