This is the kind of reaction that almost certainly ensures you lose. The US is still in S Korea, but it'd be a tough sell to make the S Korean govt out to be a puppet, even more that S Korean society is abjectly subordinate. Heck, it's probably got the toughest labour movement in the whole of SE and E Asia. Sure, we know why S Korea was allowed so much rope and leeway; why, when land reform was being opposed elsewhere, it was allowed/encouraged in S Korea and in Taiwan; why a dirigiste state and industrial planning was allowed; why a closed financial system was allowed; etc., etc. And it's sometimes easy to forget that it's been barely a quarter century since Kwangju.
So, if the worse case scenario is S Korea, hell, it's not a bad scenario. And if that was held out to Iraqis as a worse case scenario, it's probable a majority of Iraqis would go for it!
kj