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Was the Iraq War Worth It? Six Views

(Aug. 31) -- Today marks the formal conclusion of U.S. combat operations in Iraq. Though 50,000 troops will remain in the country for another year, and though they will certainly play a combat role, both their mission and the U.S. role in Iraq have been downgraded significantly from the last seven years of war. More than...

Last US Combat Brigade Pulls Out of Iraq

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait (Aug. 19) -- A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border between Iraq and Kuwait early Thursday and rolled into history. For the troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd...