Bremer to Baghdad:

"You're free now, bye bye!"

Or something like that. More later, but despite the headlines, this bears repeating.

For a government to have sovereignty, it needs three things: a monopoly on the legitimate means of coercion; the material capacity to sustain a country's social and economic infrastructure; and an administrative apparatus capable of overseeing and administering policy. By these measures, the U.S. will retain sovereignty as long as the U.S. maintains its military, monetary, and administrative domination of the country.

Michael Schwartz