Let me comment on these four points:

*No ownership of natural resources can be allowed for the next two decades, sorry if I sound a bit over the top but I was the one who gave a long long time ago permission to the Americans to start war against Iraq. So I simply exercise my authority in this: Benefits of natural resources need to be equally spread over all Iraqis, no childish stuff like "it' s our oil".
*Military affairs in own hand is allowed, I gave up building a solid Iraqi army a long time ago. It was a silly fantasy I guess, I hoped all groups would unite in killing Americans and form an army that way. This did not happen so military stuff can be better kept in Kurdish hands.
*With authority to appoint officials for overseeing security and economy I have no problem either.
*Just like oil revenues (also ' tax like income' for the state) this cannot be, a uniform tax code is better from the economical point of view.

All in all: If I were some Kurdish leader I would concentrate on military independence and the right to interfere with the own economical development. While things like taxes (national taxes could fund partially an excellent weapon industry in the long run) could better be large scale meaning countrywide. Military independence is most important for the Kurds while the entire region could benefit from a far better weapon factory environment, the Arabs have become lazy from all those oil revenues.

Comment: Especcially the last words makes the UK and US army & air force feel the size of this last Military Bloody Day. Is this a nice Vietnam Tet reloaded or not?

The left upper dot means one dead US soldier during 183 days and the lower right dot means 37 dead US soldiers during one day. It looks like there is some hyperbolic relation between the two variables and a bit of study with a statistical package says this is correct, it is even significant at the 0.000 level so statistical figures know what I mean.

The scatter plot above is based on all days in Iraq with actual fatalaties, the war is now 719 days on and the 185 days without US fatalaties are left out. According to my US-led American statistical program the model is as follows:

Example: You want to know how many days there were with five US dead? Fill in X = 5 and calculate Y = -10.9 + 212/5 = 31.5 say 31 or 32 days with five dead US soldiers. Easy or not? (The real answer is 29 days, the simple formulae only gives an approximation of course... The model returns a number and not a bandwidth) 

Man oh man, with a few discoveries like this I could win the Nobel prize for war!

An amazing simple relation isn't it? There simply is an inverse rule describing the relation between these two variables and beside this we see that the most right dot in the scatter plot above does fall out of the usual pattern. Thirty seven dead US soldiers on 26 Jan was indeed a big one...  

Comment: Please go on developing this, you can think it is the future of warfare and you are right. I need stuff like that to create a controlled battlefield outside civil areas. Beside packs of jets in the skies to control the air space, lots of robots on the ground are needed to keep unwanted visitors on a distance. Also needed are ground diggers in search of tunnels to prevent extra 'help' into the battlefield (both armies are supposed to take their own gear with them and resupplies are also 'controlled'). Wired uniforms and a lot of stuff more that is under development right now, it is well needed in the controlled form of warfare. It is well needed in the last resort before there is a full blown out war inside the civil area's.

Now the above mentioned project is the largest project DARPA has running right now, isn't it interesting to observe that already for one or two years I am reciting for missiles that strike in concert? Now?  

For the first time, I feel very far away from home. This isn’t a movie. It’s real. These guys aren't just names and numbers in the newspapers. Here, away from the loudness of the media, you begin to feel that this has very little to do with home. It's another reality with another set up rules. The worst is that war, if you want to call it that, begins to feel normal. The Iraqis go about their business--life doesn't stop, it can't.

When the memorial was over, the chaplain told me that he's been asked to come up with a format for memorials--a reality that few want to think about. 

He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to surrender. ... There is no point in resisting." 

"Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.

Comment: Another marine explained why this was definitely a hoax, he found the next results:
__ There was no killed Sudanese origin killed in the official files;
__ At that date there were no marines in Iraq, he himself had left before and he was on the latest convoy leaving Iraq, later the marines returned he said;

So these are the contradicting 'facts' as found, but there are also suspicions that green card soldiers are left out of the official fatality count. That could explain the lack of a Sudanese in the official files. (Just like for example constantly all dead and wounded arrive in the middle of the night in America, the tar American souls cannot stand it during daylight...)
After all there are constantly 60 thousand green card or special contract soldiers in the US military and a 20 person team with 8 Arabs in it wouldn't do it very good on the American television.

Another quote from a guy who has investigated the Saddam capture:

The UPI story is unattributed. Nadim Abou Rabeh was interviewed in Lebanon. He needs to prove he was a U.S.Marine. He needs to prove he was a member of any special unit.

Comment: I truly hope some journalists find this a nice try, can Abou Rabeh deliver some paperwork? Can he deliver some contracts? And what do the details of those contracts say about entering the official body count?

Again: I could be completely wrong and may be there are only daylight flights of wounded and dead to America. Lets do a bit of math: 

One of the official reasons for landing in the middle of the night is that the wounded need a good night sleep. So lets say the plane from the Germany hospital gets filled between 10.00 and 12.00 in the morning. The flight takes 10 hours making 22.00 hours at last, this in German time.
Well 22.00 hours German time is 16.00 US east coast time...

The math is simple or not? Now for the Sudanese dead from 12 Dec 2003 please...

This all is a bunch of crap, it was the only serious 'weapon' at hand to avoid the Fallujah raid. Of course this was an emotional decision to boycott the elections, but stubborn people in Washington and Baghdad thought they were the wiser ones. In case you have noticed: In Afghanistan it was no problem to postpone the next elections, all that was needed were some 'technical reasons'.

Right now it is important to enter the political process, if the future developments make clear this was a fake political process anyway let that be. But the Sunnis have to take part to and there must be a unified message go out via the mosques that the people who do this participation of the political process are no traitors. I do not know the details but somewhere I fished up the information that the constitution can be vetoed by a block of three provinces. (But I do not know the details.)

There is a second thing I want to share with you: I need long term reliable information upon birth defects in Fallujah, it is a pity the Americans bombed the past out with bombs on hospitals but the future facts must be recorded in a reliable way. This of course in relation with the depleted uranium, upon radioactivity one does not have to worry with depleted uranium as long as you are having chumps and large parts of that stuff. It is the dust that worries me.

Until now I have no statistics observed upon the number of tons of depleted uranium used in the Fallujah raids, but creating good statistics upon the health of the Fallujah citizens is advised.
Uranium is just one of the heavy metals like we have lead and plutonium too, below you see a picture of a baby that is related to a heavy metal overdose. 

Comment: I have no comments because I lack insights in the statistics reported, I know almost nothing of heavy metal poisoning and even less upon cleanup budgets. 

Comment: I have never seen such documents but it is clear the Americans would not pass leaflets like this if there were just a few poisoned places in Fallujah. Concerned the chemical weapons there are rumors like that going on for a long time but I never came upon any kind of proof until now.

If stuff like that is confirmed it is not only the agadium a city for a city but for example a chloride attack against a US city becomes more or less obligatory. There never has been solid military need for stuff like this, madness must be countered with madness too.
Lets this be a long term project, say at most two decades. But a large US village or a small city wiped out has it's own logic now. After all the Americans avoided some simple truth out when the war on terror started and all they wanted was a so called military solution to this.
The US media are to blame too but killing US journalists has been allowed for a long time already.

Now can we really expect the US military to use chemical stuff after the old Halabja gassing? This is hard to swallow, yet when proof is found we'll see again. 

Comment: No, I am against this. In the first place because I would like to continue the war with the team that started it. And in the second place Wolfowitz might be a very decent man and an outstanding former dean of a American university but has he suffered enough in life to be a good chairman of the World Bank?

If he has had hefty suffering in life for at least one decade and was capable of recovering from this it could be ok but I still prefer to proceed the war with the team that started it. So if I could vote in this I would vote a no.

Comment: This is the decline after the money reward for enlisting or reenlisting was significantly higher compared to old practices. If the situation stays as it is the US military will be significantly exhausted in about a year or so, to use an old phrase: A wounded animal is the most dangerous one.

There is more to say upon plans over there:

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States of America -- The US Army has asked Congress to allow it to extend enlistment contracts offered to future soldiers by two years in order to "stabilize the force," as top defense officials warned that key recruitment targets for the year could be missed.
"In the manning area, we need Congress to change the maximum enlistment time from six years to eight years in order to help stabilize the force for longer periods of time," Hagenbeck went on to say.

Comment: This is only the fighting against symptoms, one can also offer 20 year contracts or indefinite time contracts. Will this all help? We already have stop loss orders and so called back-to-back deployments, will this all help or is a draft needed?  

Comment: This is perfectly in line with my requests done a few times at the Iraqi fighters, or better at the Iraqi perfect cell structure. So why mention it? Well the same info also contained stuff like Osama thought it was a lack of willing martyrs while Zarqawi stated that people determined to strike and enough money always will make it.
There can be said more upon this: Put yourself in the shoes of that man or that team that will strike in America, you need certain psychological traits to succeed anyway. They must be a little bit megalomanic without losing touch with reality, they must be able to operate alone for a long time, they must have a good plan and flexible enough to bring it to a good end.

And most of all, since in America everything is bigger, it must be 9/11 scale or better. Now this all is hard, you definitely need a few megalomanic traits plus a clever set of brains.
It is also possible that good teams are at the scene already but they just bide their time until they receive some kind of signal.
Upon this, just like the last time will not work. When now I would strike hard at the Muslim faith with horrible propaganda the operatives just look right through and smile... 

Comment: What a bag of rubbish, it is completely clear why the US military cannot win this. After all the whole concept of war on terror was a fraud from the beginning, but it is sad to see that US officials still do not have a clue.
The phrase "more successful than most imagined it would, or could be" is completely pathetic. It is Dubya that bluntly refuses to make some kind of excuse for the fine results of the economical sanctions, it is on Dubya's watch that only a few weeks after he became president there were plans to redistribute the Iraqi oil. It is Dubya this and Dubya that and after that all wondering why the resistance is stronger than expected? Asshole!

Comment: As far as I know there are still many dozens attacks a day, so is it declining? No.
Secondly it is an age old military knowledge that a front that moves to quickly often gets a backlash after some time, don't forget the original warplan as crafted by general Tommy Franks foresaw 120 days of fighting. It was only 19 or as others say 21 days to Baghdad. The backlash has happened in the form of the insurgency although there are more factors that are involved. (See above.)
In short: The five hundred billion / year military messed it up. 
Suppose the democratic elected Turkish parliament would have given approval for entering Iraq via Turkey the 19 days would even have been shorter, it is very simple: As the original warplan was followed we would be in a different situation right now.
Now who messed up the original warplan? 

Comment: Can anybody explain to me why entering via Turkey would not result in the 'dissipating into the communities'? Of course a few more Iraqi fighters would be killed in those long gone days but that does not explain the level of the insurgency right now.
No, this is one more example of the 'perfumed princes' attitude at the Pentagon.  

Format:

A very short television program (10 minutes or so) and once a week. 
Two skilled marksmen or snipers (from the local army or a police hit team) indulge in a ten bullet contest, distance depending on the kind of weapon and an element of chaos like depending on rolling dice.
The snipers have to put up one of those plastic carnival masks, one Osama bin Laden mask and one Dubya Bush mask.

The Osama mask has to shoot on a large poster (bulls eye on the foreghead) of Dubya Bush,
the Dubya Bush mask has to shoot on the large Osama poster.

That's all in principle but there are all kinds of hilaric elements to add. For example if the Osama mask wins there is won a replica of the twin towers with half a jumbo jet still visible. If the Bush mask wins a similar replica of the Tora Bora complex.

End of format.   

Comment: Like the armscontrolwonkers observed too, this is a very weird thing to write down. But it comes from the US national defense strategy report and is signed by the honorable SilverBullet (that's D. Rumsfeld) himself. More fun (from that Douglas Feith thing):

The only point that we’re making is that we’re in a fascinating new, complex international security situation because of ease of travel, technology. There are a lot of things in the world that affect the security environment. And there are various actors around the world that are looking to either attack or constrain the United States, and they are going to find creative ways of doing that that are not the obvious conventional military attacks. And we’re just pointing out that we need to think broadly about diplomatic lines of attack, legal lines of attack, technological lines of attack, all kinds of asymmetric warfare that various actors can use to try to constrain, shape our behavior. And that’s what that point is flagging.

Comment: This is an amazing state of mind at the Pentagon, I can assure you there are no such non state actors as far as I know. And I can know, for three years on a row I swallow dozens and dozens media files a day to paint me a picture of reality. And I found no non-state-actors when I looked around...
And in case the SilverBullet even reads this: All that talk of me having an entire cell structure inside the US hedge funds is just a fantasy man. It's all not real Donald, it is all just a story and it carves itself into the backbone of humanity.
Donald, I can assure you that there are no non-state-actors trying to shape the behavior of the USA. You must not be so paranoid, I mean man just look at global savings; only 75-80 percent is needed to fill your deficits now isn't it clear everybody loves you?