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Date: Monday, 12/19/2011 10:13
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left the last American soldiers Iraq, on Sunday morning, after about nine years from the beginning of the war controversial causes, chapters, leaving behind a country living on the impact of political crises encapsulated the challenges of a major security. The soldiers of the Third Brigade of the Cavalry Division First last of crossed the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border,
After about eight years and nine months to cross the U.S. forces the border the same in the opposite direction at the beginning of "Operation Iraqi Freedom." He left the procession latter, which included 110 mechanisms of carrying 500 troops camp, located about 350 km from the border crossing Iraqi Kuwaiti gesture barbed wire , to the applause and shouts of the soldiers, before comes down after eight minutes of the curtain on more U.S. wars controversial since the Vietnam War a half century ago.
The soldier said Martin lamp upon arrival at the border crossing, "It's a historic moment," while saw his colleague, Joseph, who preferred to not reveal the name of his family that "Iraqis Sistfikon today will not be we are there."
and will remain in Iraq, 157 soldiers U.S. helping to train Iraqi forces and working under the authority and supervision of the U.S. Embassy, in addition to a small band of Marines charged with protecting her Mission diplomacy.
The U.S. withdrawal application of a security agreement signed in 2008 between Baghdad and Washington, noting that U.S. President Barack Obama said in October the full withdrawal after Iraq refused to grant thousands of American soldiers legal immunity.
and when the number of U.S. troops peaked in 2007 the spread of 170 thousand soldiers have engaged in fighting the insurgency, remained about 50 thousand of them at the end of combat operations in August 2010, were busy in the training of Iraqi forces.
and leave the U.S. forces Iraq, hours after a slide into political crisis emerging was the comment list of "Iraq" led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and political rival, the most prominent of the President Minister Nuri al-Maliki, participation in the parliament sessions starting from the first Saturday in protest at the "marginalization."
She explained the "Iraqi" in a statement it was "out of our moral and constitutional, political, (...) it is announced suspension of its participation in the meetings of the House of Representatives as of the day Saturday and until further notice. "
The statement that the list "has repeatedly voiced its rejection of the policies of exclusion and marginalization and autocracy (...) and not abiding by the Constitution and violation of laws and handling methodology of repression and intimidation of people especially in the management of the security file."
and added crisis suspend the Iraqi List, the membership of the Parliament to another political crisis, demanding that the provinces to shift to dependent territories, which raises the divisions between Iraqi officials.
In addition to the political crisis continued that kept Iraq last year without a government, despite the passage of more than six months after the legislative elections held in March 2010, looms serious security challenge before the country is still witnessing acts of violence almost daily for nearly nine years.
Apparently, the security men and the approximately 900 thousand are ready in principle to deal with internal security, but Iraqi and U.S. officials skeptical about the ability of these to protect the borders of the country's land and water, especially air, where Iraq does not have any defenses are real and depend only on a limited number of helicopters.
In parallel, facing the oil-rich Iraq, which exports about 2.2 million barrels per day, achieving revenues monthly value of seven billion dollars, a deficit in the provision of basic services such as electricity and clean water.
also looms against Iraq, the risk of deterioration of the situation in neighboring Syria, where a protest movement since the mid-March, which killed about 5 thousand people according to the United Nations, and the possibility of the arrival of Sunni militants to power them, in addition to the possibility of Iran's quest to expand its influence in the country long U.S. withdrawal. Despite all these challenges, the U.S. withdrawal curtain on the story of a bloody began conviction administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime will make her win automatically the hearts and minds of Iraqis, then launched a war Tjajh search for weapons of mass destruction, it was found that they were not already exist. and took the story a different path having paved the American troops the way for armed rebellion following the disbanding of the army in particular. this has caused deaths of 125 thousand Iraqi civilians, at least, and thousands of soldiers and Iraqi police, in addition to about 4474 U.S. soldiers, in addition to spending about 770 billion dollars from the American side.
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