Iraq Continuity Plan - Updated

January 27, 2007

Overview

The United States government has liberated Iraq.  This plan, developed by the Institute for Global Excellence (IGE), provides suggestions as to how post war Iraq can quickly be transformed into a productive and safe country, ready to participate as a responsible member of the world community.

Environment

Violence has been a trademark of the post war Iraq.  Over 3,000 U.S. troops have been killed and the threat of violence has paralyzed the country.  Although progress has been made in restoring basic necessities back to Iraq, continued violence has slowed this reconstruction progress.  In addition, sectarian violence has moved Iraq into a civil war.

Strategy

IGE recommends the following strategy to accelerate the progress of bringing back Iraq into the world community:

- Convene quarterly conferences of with Iraq and Arab leaders to assist Iraq in stabling their country.  Include high-level world leaders such as President Bill Clinton and President George H.W. Bush at these conferences to facilitate the stablization efforts.

- Schedule a sequence of Iraqi Government meetings with specific due dates and milestones related political progress and reconciliation. These meetings should be facilitated by the United Nations with world leaders actively participating in the process.  These meetings should also be held outside of Iraq (preferable within the U.S.) to ensure free-thinking and to avoid the security risks within Iraq.

- Develop a temporary quasi-partitioned Iraqi military and police force and assign Sunni troops and police officers to secure Sunni areas and Shiite troops and police officers to secure Shiite areas.  The Kurds would maintain security in the Kurdish region.

- Develop a plan to reduce U.S. coalition troops and bring in United Nations sponsored troops to secure the Iraq borders and to maintain the sovereignty of the Iraqi Government.

- Focus the reduced number of U.S. troops on training and reconstruction efforts.

- Develop an international elite military terrorist tracking unit with Muslim and Non-Muslim soldiers to aggressively track terrorist within and outside of Iraq.

- Develop a cultural interface team comprising of religious leaders and key muslin and non-muslin political leaders to discuss and implement violence reduction methods.

- Continue the free elections process.

- Create an economic development program and job creation initiative within Iraq to be managed by the United Nations, United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.

Implementation

The U.S. Coalition, The United Nations Security Council, NATO and key countries within the Middle East, should charter a committee to implement this new program.

Summary

The above brief outlines positive actions that can be taken to increase security and to exacerbate progress aimed at bringing Iraq back as a responsible country in the world community.