Iraqi sovereignty

I guess the big news of the day is the transfer of power to a Iraqi government (albeit a handpicked one) two full days ahead of schedule. I guess the idea was to thwart insurgents from terrorizing and disrupting the handover on the 30th, the originally scheduled date. This is no doubt a new beginning and an opportunity for the Iraqi's to control their own destiny. Years later we probably will look back on this date and either opine that this was dawn of a new age in Middle East politics or a point in history when we continued to plumb new depths of ignorance and violence with added vigor and savagery. The situation is so tenuous that we just don't know how this will turn out. I hope it turns out to be for the better.