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Obama to Troops: No 'Victory Lap' in Tuesday Night Speech on Iraq
By David Wood - Politics DailyPresident 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. In his Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday evening, Obama told the soldiers he intends to express his "deepest gratitude to military personnel who served in Iraq – and to their families who waited for their return home." "I'm going to make a speech to the nation tonight, it's not going to be a victory lap. It's not going to be self-congratulatory. ...
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 ...
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