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Obama in Oval Office Address: Iraq War Combat Mission is Over
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- Carrying out a major pledge of his 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama declared an end to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq Tuesday night, after 89 months of fighting that has killed 4,416 Americans and cost $708 billion so far. ...
Obama: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom Is Over'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- Fiercely opposed to the war from the start, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: "It is time to turn the page." Claiming no victory, he said the nation's most urgent priority now must be fixing its own sickly economy. From the Oval Office, where George W. Bush first announced the invasion that would come to define his presidency, Obama addressed millions who were divided over the war in his country and around the world. He said the United States "has paid a huge price" to ...
Obama Ends Iraq Combat Effort: 'Time to Turn the Page'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- Opposed to the war from the start, President Barack Obama on Tuesday formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq as promised, declaring: "It is time to turn the page." He said the nation's most urgent priority must be fixing its own economy. In advance excerpts of his prime-time speech to the nation, Obama said the United States "has paid a huge price" to give Iraqis the chance to shape their future. That toll has included more than 4,400 dead, tens of thousands of troops wounded and hundreds of billions of dollars spent since March 2003. "Ending this war is not only ...
Obama Tells Troops Iraq Speech Won't Be a Victory Lap
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- President Obama promised thousands of soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas, Tuesday that he won't do a "victory lap'' for fulfilling his promise to end the formal U.S. combat role in Iraq and shrink American forces there to below 50,000. ...
Iraq Scorecard: The War So Far
By David Wood - Politics DailyWars are inherently chaotic and confusing, and judging the outcome so far of the war in Iraq is doubly difficult. The formal end of the U.S. combat role there, and the drawdown of U.S. troops to below 50,000, have unleashed a flood of emotional reaction, and President Obama's speech this evening should provoke even more debate about the cause, conduct and consequences of the U.S. invasion in 2003. Here are some data points to guide the debate. Most are from the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index; the statistics on American battle wounded and evacuees are from the Veterans for Common Sense, ...
Prime Minister: 'Iraq Today Is Sovereign'
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- U.S. soldiers relinquished their combat roles today after more than seven years of fighting in Iraq, handing over their duties to Iraqi soldiers and police, whom Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki praised as equally capable. "Iraq today is sovereign and independent," al-Maliki told the country in a televised speech commemorating the pullback by American forces from leading the battle against Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias. "I promise you the sectarian war will not return. We will not allow it. Iraqis will live as loving brothers," al-Maliki said, adding that his troops were up ...
Analysis: Obama Seeks to 'Turn the Page' on Iraq
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- Twice during his Oval Office speech, President Barack Obama's emotions seemed to upstage the words he was addressing to the nation about the formal end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq. Obama's familiar professorial tone Tuesday night dropped somberly when he paid tribute to the more than 4,400 American service members who lost their lives there, and it leaped when he declared with more than a hint of exasperation that "it is time to turn the page." If his most repeated theme was praise and gratitude for troops whose mission is "completed" in Iraq, the speech, less than 20 ...
Obama: US Combat Role in Iraq Nearing End
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- In a speech to the Disabled Veterans of America in Atlanta on Monday, President Obama sought to reassure an increasingly skeptical American public that he is firmly in control of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that the United States' military commitment in those regions is not indefinite. As evidence, the president reminded the audience of a promise made at the start of his presidency to end the American military combat presence in Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010 -- a pledge he is on track to fulfill. "By the end of this month, we'll have brought more than 90,000 of our troops home ...
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