NY TIMES - U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq by Year’s End, Obama Says, Oct 21, 2011

"WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that the last American soldier would leave Iraq by the end of the year, bringing to an end a nearly nine-year military engagement that cost the lives of 4,400 troops and more than $1 trillion, divided the American public, and came to define America’s role in the world."

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