Rakhel
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the reports I saw said that only 150 personnel will be left in Iraq by the turn of the year. this one says 160(10 person difference).WASHINGTON | Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:27pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq this year, symbolically ending the war but dashing U.S. hopes of leaving a few thousand troops to buttress a still shaky Iraq and offset neighboring Iran's influence.
After months of negotiations with officials in Baghdad failed to reach an agreement to keep possibly thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq as trainers, Obama announced he would stick to plans to pull out the remaining force of 40,000 by year's end.
"After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over," Obama told reporters.
The announcement was a milestone more than 8 1/2 years after the Bush administration led the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein based on warnings of weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011...E79K4LR20111022?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Obama had been blasted by the GOP, not for bringing the troops home but for announcing the time frame.
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