Rich has been telling me for months that nothing is going to change on that date, although I haven’t had a chance to ask him to expand on that. Mickey Kaus makes an additional point I hadn’t thought of: “This has all the makings of ’Mission Accomplished II.’ The June 30 transfer will be ‘accomplished,’ but none of the essentials will change. Indeed, we’re told by our commanding generals, the violence will probably get worse” (bolding his).