  Today the "liberal media" is rapturously trumpeting the great news: Bush has handed sovereignty back over to Iraq TWO DAYS EARLY!!! Bush was doing his usual grinning, playing the proud father, scribbling ridiculous notes about "Freedom Reigning". Um, what exactly did we do yesterday? We signed some documents, we got urlLink Bremer and other senior officials the hell out of the country before they got bombed , and left behind over 130,000 troops (while calling up urlLink thousands of our Involuntary Reserve ), soldiers are being executed by insurgents, things are less stable by the day. Are they serious? We basically stole a nerdy kid's toy, stomped all over it and broke it, then gave it back to them. The big "handover" ceremony Bush has been touting for months now took about five minutes and happened in complete secrecy. "Thank you Baghdad, we love you! Good night! " From the Washington Post: Although Bremer's document stated that the interim government "will assume the complete sovereignty on behalf of the Iraqi people," it will still lack many of hallmarks of other sovereign nations. More than 130,000 U.S. troops will remain, with wide latitude to mount combat operations and detain Iraqis.
A temporary constitution will restrict the interim government's power largely to the areas of basic civil administration and preparations for national elections scheduled for January. The country's oil revenue will be subject to international oversight. American personnel will continue to work out of Hussein's Republican Palace. And the government itself is supposed to be in power for only seven months, until national elections are held. (snip) President Bush, speaking in Istanbul at a NATO summit meeting, called it "a day of great hope for Iraqis and a day that terrorist enemies hoped never to see.
" "The Iraqi people have their country back," Bush declared. "We have kept our word. " Apparently "our word" was fucking up their country beyond repair then bailing when things got tough so we wouldn't look any worse for the election than we already do. Indeed, the "terrorist enemies" we surely thwarted yesterday by the secret signing of the meaningless documents. Osama was crying, I'm sure... 
