Hopeful
I have no idea who the US is turning over titular "power" to on 30 June, nor does the US President. He'd have us believe it's now somehow a UN problem, not U.S. So our troops will be the force of stability but the interim gov't can't command it ( - not that we'd want them to, but how sovereign are you when 130K+ troops secure your government?. How is it that this govt can be seen as anything but a US puppet?

The most popular party in Iraq polls 14%! This is asking for it.... There will be no flowering Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq. Indeed, the expectation-lowering has already begun within the administration, floating the idea of stabilization instead. Realism sets in......

I both admire the willingness of the W. Gang to stick to the 6/30 plan and wonder if single-mindedness has conceded to adverse inevitability. Do they just hope that the civil war will take until after early November to start? Do they think that the insurgents will be spent by early July? I am open to the "why not push ahead?" theory as nothing else has worked. But let's be real about our expectations, please.................

If C-SPAN had read the names of the dead, could you then worry more about honoring fellow (fallen) Americans than worrying about who scored the latest political points? Sheesh. Whine about ABC all you want, but not at the cost of honoring our fellow Americans. If this has been a just cause, then we can honor those who died for it without embracing one political cause on the other..