Everything is just cool in Iraq part 77

So we just handed over "power" a couple of days early. I'm sure it's because everthing was going so well we were ahead of scedual. Of maybe not. Maybe this is just a deperate ploy to avoid the images I was talking about: Bremer speech/bombs going off. Pandagon makes a good point about the PR hit they are going to take:

But even I didn't expect this. Not only did the Bush Administration sacrifice the political benefit of the transfer, they did themselves harm. Pushing it up two days and conducting it in a tiny room with few watching leaves the media with no relevant spin save "they were afraid of insurgent attacks". Stunningly, they essentially admitted that they can't protect the country and they've no control over the events.

No speeches, no brass band, no flags, No two week "bounce" in the way people view the war.