As the U.S. turns from bombing Iraq to rebuilding it, the U.S. government is airlifting dollars from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to replace - - at least temporarily -- the discredited Iraqi currency!

...Using U.S. dollars will make the U.S. currency the de facto currency, at least in the interim....

--Drudge Report, citing The Wall Street Journal

Gosh, why do I have the vague feeling that this could possibly send the wrong message?