set to conclude within weeks. He was speaking at a joint news conference with Iraq's Prime Minister, who's
on an official visit to Washington. Obama says the troops are leaving a sovereign and self-reliant Iraq.
But Iraqis say after almost a decade of occupation, their country is simply cast adrift.
The withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq has been a contentious issue within the United States
since the beginning of the Iraq War. As the war has progressed from its initial 2003 invasion phase to a
multi-year occupation, U.S. public opinion has turned in favor of troop withdrawal. As of May 2007,
55 percent of Americans believed that the Iraq war was a mistake, and 51 percent of registered voters
favored troop withdrawal.In late April 2007, the U.S. Congress passed a supplementary spending bill for
Iraq that sets a deadline for troop withdrawal, but President Bush vetoed this bill soon afterwards.
All US Forces are mandated to withdraw from Iraqi territory by 31 December 2011 under the terms of
a bilateral agreement signed in 2008.
a troop withdrawal timetable with a vote of 52-47. The withdrawal would have started within 120 days,
and would have required that all troops be out of the country by April 30, 2008.
it goes against the principles of war to attack a country that is not a threat.
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