Obama: U.S. will withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of

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Obama: U.S. will withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of the year

Posted 21/10/2011 07:51 PM

BAGHDAD – Babinaoz said President Barack Obama said the United States would keep its promise to withdraw troops from Iraq by the end of the year.

Obama told reporters, “as promised .. the rest of our troops in Iraq will return home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years will end America’s war in Iraq.”

He spoke after a video teleconference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said they were in full agreement on how to proceed.

Obama said that the two countries coming in now is a “new phase” and that there would be “a normal relationship between two girlfriends sovereignty. New equal partnership based on mutual interest and mutual respect.”

The withdrawal of U.S. troops a major milestone in the war that began in 2003 and toppled former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power.

Obama said “Over the next two months Christzm our troops in Iraq .. tens of thousands of them .. their luggage and their equipment back to the country in convoys.”

“The last U.S. troops would cross the border out of Iraq, head held high and they are proud of their success and they know that the American people stand united in support of our troops .. this is the way which will end the U.S. military efforts in Iraq.”

The declining role of the U.S. military in Iraq for the predominantly providing advice to Iraqi forces in a country where levels of violence declined significantly after peaking in the sectarian conflict in 2006 and 2007. But the attacks continue to occur on a daily basis.

And prominent Iraqis say privately that they wanted to keep U.S. forces to maintain peace between Arabs and Kurds over control of the various oil-rich regions in northern Iraq.

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