Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Obama on TV: It's time to turn the page on Iraq (AP)
• Obama: Time to turn the page in Iraq (Reuters)
• In address, Obama pays tribute to George W. Bush (AP)
• House GOP leader jabs at Iraq war surge critics (AP)
• Obama urges Iraqis to form inclusive government (AP)
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• Obama declares U.S. combat mission in Iraq over (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Obama: No Iraq victory lap as combat mission ends (Reuters)
• As troops withdraw, US spying scaled back in Iraq: official (AFP)
• Obama declares an end to Iraq combat mission (AFP)
• Obama's Iraq Address: Afghan War Looms Large Over Speech (Time.com)
• US spies worry about Iraq's political deadlock (AFP)
• Obama declares end to US combat mission in Iraq (AP)
• Blair 'desperately sorry' for Iraq war deaths: memoirs (AFP)
• Oval Office makeover has comfy, more modern feel (AP)
• Iraq says it's independent as US ends combat (AP)
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,416 (AP)
• Facts, figures related to the Iraq war (AP)
• US Republicans hit Obama on Iraq 'surge' (AFP)
• PM says Iraq independent after US combat role ends (AP)

Obama on TV: It's time to turn the page on Iraq (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:15 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is telling the nation in a prime-time Oval Office address that the U.S. is officially ending its combat role in Iraq, a final turning point in one of the country's longest wars.

Obama: Time to turn the page in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:13 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama declared an end to the seven-year U.S. combat mission in Iraq on Tuesday and told war-weary Americans his central responsibility now is to restore the sagging U.S. economy.

In address, Obama pays tribute to George W. Bush (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:10 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is acknowledging that he and former President George W. Bush disagreed about the Iraq war from the beginning. But in his nationally televised address on the Iraq war, he pays tribute to Bush by calling him "a patriot."

House GOP leader jabs at Iraq war surge critics (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - Congressional leaders who opposed the troop surge in Iraq are now taking credit for it, and President Barack Obama is more worried about ending the war than winning it, House Republican leader John Boehner said Tuesday.

Obama urges Iraqis to form inclusive government (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is calling on Iraq's leaders to act quickly to form an inclusive government.

(AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:02 PM PDT AP - Obama compares his troop buildup in Afghanistan to surge in Iraq, pays tribute to Bush.

Obama declares U.S. combat mission in Iraq over (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 04:17 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — After more than seven years of war, President Barack Obama declared the combat mission in Iraq over on Tuesday night, saying that's in the best interests of both Iraqis and Americans and that ending combat will help the United States focus on new priorities, especially restoring the economy.

Obama: No Iraq victory lap as combat mission ends (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 04:09 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama declared the U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially over on Tuesday but said he would not take a "victory lap" because a lot more work remained to be done inside the country.

As troops withdraw, US spying scaled back in Iraq: official (AFP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 04:03 PM PDT AFP - The scaling back of the US military mission in Iraq means Washington's spies will have fewer "eyes and ears on the ground" in the country, a senior intelligence official said Tuesday.

Obama declares an end to Iraq combat mission (AFP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 04:00 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama Tuesday formally declared an end to America's seven-year combat mission in Iraq, saying it was time to turn the page on a war which has cost thousands of Iraqi and US lives.

Obama's Iraq Address: Afghan War Looms Large Over Speech (Time.com) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 03:55 PM PDT Time.com - With President Obama's Iraq speech set for Tuesday night, Iraq's fate is far from settled, Afghanistan is going badly and Democrats would prefer that Obama show he's focused on a sagging economy

US spies worry about Iraq's political deadlock (AFP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 03:28 PM PDT AFP - US spy agencies view political stalemate in Iraq as the biggest threat to security in Iraq as the American military scales back its mission in the country, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Obama declares end to US combat mission in Iraq (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 03:26 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is declaring Operation Iraqi Freedom to be over with the end of the U.S. combat mission, and says it's now time "to turn the page" to give the Iraqi people full responsibility for their own security.

Blair 'desperately sorry' for Iraq war deaths: memoirs (AFP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 03:22 PM PDT AFP - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he was "desperately sorry" over the deaths in the Iraq war, in extracts released Tuesday from his memoirs.

Oval Office makeover has comfy, more modern feel (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 03:11 PM PDT AP - Congressional opponents, stubborn diplomats or wary heads of state, beware: The new Oval Office sofas look so comfy, you just might be lulled into a few reckless compromises.

Iraq says it's independent as US ends combat (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:13 PM PDT AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the end of American combat operations Tuesday leaves his country independent and an equal to the United States and he assured his people their own security forces will protect them.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,416 (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:02 PM PDT AP - As of Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, at least 4,416 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Facts, figures related to the Iraq war (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:50 PM PDT AP - Facts related to the Iraq war and the nation's economy as the U.S. combat role ends:

US Republicans hit Obama on Iraq 'surge' (AFP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 11:25 AM PDT AFP - Hours before President Barack Obama marked a symbolically important US draw-down in Iraq on Tuesday, his Republican foes acidly noted he had opposed the "surge" strategy that helped make it possible.

PM says Iraq independent after US combat role ends (AP) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:34 AM PDT AP - Iraq's prime minister hailed the end of American combat operations Tuesday, saying Iraq is now an independent, sovereign country on equal footing with the U.S.

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