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General News 8/21/2010 at 12:35 PM EDT H2'ed 8/21/10

Obama Admin Claims End to Combat Operations in Iraq, But Iraqis See Same War Under a Different Name

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The Obama administration says the last combat brigades have left Iraq. Is this the end of the Iraq war or just a rebranding of the US occupation? More than 50,000 troops remain in Iraq as well as 4,500 special operations forces and tens of thousands of private contractors. The US embassy in Baghdad is the largest in the world--the size of eighty football fields... (Democracy Now!)

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