The handover ceremony took place, Bremer's out of there.

This is pretty clever, You can bet the terrorists had something really rotten planned for the 30th, and no doubt they've been working their asses off on setting it up for the perfect time.

Oh, sure. They can still set off all the car bombs on Wednesday, or even tomorrow, but it won't be the same. It's already becoming obvious that they are about keeping Iraq enslaved, and not about fighting the Oppressors. That will only make it more obvious.

And yes, there is no small amount of satisfaction in knowing that the Great Media Countdown, carefully planned hour by hour and minute by minute by networks like CNN, has been squashed flat. This is almost as good as the time Bush went off to Iraq and left the media with its pants around its ankles.