President Barack Obama's announcement that the last American soldier will leave Iraq by year's end signals a welcome end to a war that was started under false pretenses and went on far too long — killing more than 4,400 Americans and many more thousands of Iraqis and costing about $1 trillion over nearly nine years.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Obama deserves credit for vowing to bring soldiers home from Iraq
Monday, October 31, 2011 | 5:27 p.m. CDT;
updated 5:51 p.m. CDT, Monday, October 31, 2011
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