You've heard about the US plans for the returning residents of Fallujah: ID tags, retina scans, military work brigades...
It is not much of a reach to see that, at least in their fantasies, US planners would like to set up what sociologists call a "total institution". Like a mental hospital or a prison, Fallujah, at least as reimagined by the Americans, will be a place where constant surveillance equals daily life and the capacity to interdict "suspicious" behavior (however defined) is the norm. But "total institution" might be too sanitized a term to describe activities that so clearly violate international law as well as fundamental morality. Those looking for a descriptor with more emotional bite might consider one of those used by correspondent Pepe Escobar of Asia Times Online: either "American gulag" for those who enjoy Stalinist imagery or "concentration camp" for those who prefer the Nazi version of the same. But maybe we should just call it a plain old police (city-)state.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FL18Ak04.html
And while all these US forces are occupied administering Fallujah's 'New Freedom Is Slavery' police camp, I guess the "insurgents" operating throughout the rest of Iraq will all just go on vacation...