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Thursday, December 15, 2011  Panetta leads ceremony marking formal end of America's deadly, divisive war in Iraq

Wednesday, September 01, 2010  President Obama called America's troops the "steel in our ship of state." Many of those men and women of steel — and the parents who helped forge them — said they think the president is plotting the right course.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010  President Barack Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office and also visit troops at Fort Bliss in Texas on Tuesday to mark the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq.

Friday, August 20, 2010  A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight.

Thursday, August 19, 2010  The spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq says Iraqi police and military are up to the task of keeping the country secure after US combat troops complete their withdrawal.

Thursday, August 19, 2010  Staff Sergeant Luke Dill was an 18-year-old specialist, when he rolled into Iraq as part of the U.S. invasion. Now, after two tours of duty, he's 25 and says he's proud to be leaving the country with the last of the U.S. combat units.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010  "The president heard directly from General Odierno, who said that we were on target to complete our drawdown by the end of August. Already we have removed over 80,000 troops from Iraq since President Obama took office," Gibbs said.

Monday, August 02, 2010  President Barack Obama declared Monday that the Iraq war was nearing an end "as promised and on schedule," touting what he called a success of his administration though it comes amid persistent instability and uncertainty in Iraq.