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American troops in Iraq fade from major cities

One more! | 2:41 a.m. June 29, 2009

Add Iraq to the long list of nations that the United States of America has liberated, and left! Thank you President Bush! God Bless the United States armed forces and the former Commander in Chief! Mission accomplished inspite of tremdous opposition from the left!

Yup!! | 7:19 a.m. June 29, 2009

Sounds like a "quagmire" and that we have been "defeated" and without a doubt iraq has been "lost". "Hopeless" mess is another word that I heard Democrats using.

The Democrats saying these things are nothing but traitors. They did not want america to be successful because that meant war actually works/accomplishes something.

No surprise though, like it has in the past, it gives others hope and protects our freedoms.

There are alot of dead terrorists in iraq and they have learned that we will stay and do what it takes despite what the Democrat cowards would have us do.

Shameful...just shameful.

Joel | 8:08 a.m. June 29, 2009

Agreed!

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Are you kidding me... | 8:36 a.m. June 29, 2009

It is people who turn this into a political "we're right, your evil" that is destroying this country. If you are branded a traitor because you disagree, it is the "right" that has decided that there is only one "American" way to think.

Fact is the system worked. Had there not been pressure to get a deadline established, June 30th would not been possible. It was the Republicans who claimed this day could not happen.

There are extremes on both sides - and both are dangerous. This simplistic branding of whole groups of people is just a pure exercise in ignorance.

CougarKeith | 8:45 a.m. June 29, 2009

I hope this is a good sign, I HOPE ALWAYS OBAMA IS A GREAT PRESIDENT in the end, and I am an American first and foremost. I do however worry with the bombings and attacks that in short time after the U.S. clears out of Iraq entirely, that terrorist bands will take back Iraq, and it will be left in the hands of those who do not have the interests of democracy and the best intentions of the people in mind. That is my fear. I hope I am wrong.

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A U.S. soldier walks alongside an Iraqi police officer during one of the last joint patrols in Khan Bani Saad. U.S. combat troops will pull out from Iraq's cities on Tuesday.