“All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011.” – U.S./Iraq Security Agreement, signed in Baghdad, November 17, 2008. It was a war against Iraq launched in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that was predicted to last no more than six months and would achieve [...]
Calling it a historic moment, U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that combat operations in Iraq had ended and the 50,000 transitional troops left behind would return home by the end of 2011.
“From this desk, seven and a half years ago, President Bush announced the beginning of military operations in Iraq,” the President said in an 8 p.m. televised speech to the nation. “Much has changed since that night.”
Obama said a war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency, while terrorism and sectarian warfare threatened to tear Iraq apart…
An Internet video released this week which claims to be classified U.S. military footage from an Apache helicopter “depicting the indiscriminate slaying” of civilians — including two Reuters news staff — is itself coming under intense scrutiny after the Army released records of its 2007 investigation into the Baghdad, Iraq attack.
The video in question is “Collateral Murder”, published by WikiLeaks, and has drawn the ire of military and some conservatives for providing what they say is an incomplete picture of battle conditions on the ground during the attack…
Less than a week after a deadly shooting at a military post in Ft. Hood, Texas, the nation paused Wednesday to honor the sacrifice of veterans…
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