Whistling "Twilight Zone" Theme

Apparently I'm the only one for whom this strange early hand over of power (and power is such a relative term) in Iraq seems a bit like a Pinter play. Bush and Blair are winking at one another. Bremer's on the plane out of Iraq before the ink on the paperwork is dry. The media is making it sound like everything's cool.

Sure, I'd love it if the level of bloodshed and chaos dropped significantly. But we really can't forget that this transition is a good cute guise for our continued presence, our continued military action, and our government making it clear (well, not so clear - ask Bush, Rice, Powell, or Rumsfeld 3 times in any given day and get 3 diferent responses) that if the "sovereign" government of Iraq asks us to leave, we won't.

I don't see what's changed. Iraqis are still in grave danger and their infrastructure is terrible. Our troops and support personal - both American and rest of the coalition - are in grave danger, and terribly overworked. No fairy waved a magic wand here.