The security solution in Iraq will be quite harsh now
"Deadly Assaults Push Iraq Closer To Martial Law: Attacks Kill More Than 100; New Government Prepares A Controversial Crackdown," by Yochi J. Dreazen and Greg Jaffe, Wall Street Journal, 25 June, p. A1.
No surprise that the insurgency puts out as much effort as possible as the handover date nears. This strategy is as old as the hills: when the occupier gets ready to leave, ratchet up the violence so you can claim to have driven them out, plus you create such chaos that you improve your chances at grabbing power and instituting your repressive regime.
The bitch for the U.S. right now is that we're committed to keeping a lid on the violence and keeping the interim government in power. Since we have not done well in generating an Iraqi police force or military, we'll end up bodyguarding this regime in some very heavy-handed ways in coming months. None of it will be pretty, but we will learn from it and restructure our military as a result.