It depends upon what is being "turned over". Could be a no-lose proposition for GWB.

My guess is that it's responsibility for civil unrest, and that US troops will basically withdraw to garrison in Baghdad and the oil fields.

Any problems with civil war will be a failure of the Iraqis to handle "freedom", while the US Ambassador continues to exercise veto power over any constitution the Iraqis try to develop. The UN will have to come in and fill the vacuum the US created then abandoned, thereby rescuing the US in the process.

Looks to me as if the "turn-over" is a legalistic sham to avoid the term "occupation", and therefore responsibility. It's a cut-and-run tactic with great propaganda value at home, none in the ROW.

Will be a bit like Czechoslavokia, Rumania, Bulgaria, or Hungary after WWII, with the Soviet occupation and puppet governments.

Arf