Obama Announces Troop Withdrawal, Declares End to Iraq War

US News Monday 7th November, 2011

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all American troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end.

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