This is getting ridiculous. I’ve been expecting that there will be a twist to the US occupation in Iraq, but really I didn't expect it to be this soon.

Is it because Washington has given up on its plans to hand over power to an interim Iraqi government on June 30, and is creating the chaos it needs to declare the handover impossible.

What goes around comes around. Now, the Americans will have to decide in November whether they, too, need a regime change in the White House.