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After 6 years of occupation US troops withdrew from Iraq as scheduled June 30, 2009. In a statement made June 30, 2009 (Iraq time) Sadiq Al-Rikabi, a senior adviser to Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, confirmed "The withdrawal of American troops is completed now from all cities, after everything they sacrificed for the sake of security."

What will a post US occupation Iraq look like? How has the country changed since US troops first invaded with a mandate to fight terrorism and overthrow Saddam Hussein as a terrorist sympathizer? How do the people of Iraq feel about the withdraw of US troops?

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President Obama on US Troops in Iraq

America’s men and women in uniform have fought block by block, province by province, year after year, to give the Iraqis this chance to choose a better future. Now, we must ask the Iraqi people to seize it.

President Barack Obama Speech 02/27/09: The State of Iraq and US Troop Withdrawal
 

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