And you'll have an idea as to what turning over authority means.

In name only, to a puppet regime, with limited civil authority, and a massive US military presence forever really running things. No one really believes the Iraqis are getting anything but responsibility for civil security, which the Americans can't handle and want badly to dump onto anyone - NATO, anyone.

And then watch for the show trials of Baathists. "Conducted" by the Iraqis with legal "help" and direction from their American masters.

(It will take all the help they can get to limit Saddam's trial to Saddam, and not bring in Reagan, Powell, Rumsfeld, Bush the First, and Cheney. That will be quite a trick, but they have 50 Americans "helping" them.)

As it has been described, it will look like Eastern Europe under the Soviets.

Arf