On June 29th, in keeping with the timetable set by the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, the US redeployed its combat forces out of major Iraqi cities--the first phase of a plan that should lead to a complete US withdrawal from Iraq by December 31, 2011.
The Iraqi government declared this move a victory and set June 30th as "Sovereignty Day," a national holiday. In the US, a Washington Post writer stated that Iraq "is no longer an American war," (certainly,...
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