At Fort Bragg, Obama hails the end of the Iraq war
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Three years after he campaigned against the Iraq war near this Army post, President Obama returned Wednesday to hail the hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who fought to establish the "sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq" that America will leave behind this month.
With his wife, Michelle, by his side, Obama marked the United States' imminent departure from Iraq by telling hundreds of active service members, many clad in fatigues and maroon berets signifying active airborne status, that the war was a "source of great controversy" at home. As a U.S. senator, Obama had opposed the decision to invade Iraq and had railed against the conflict in a 2008 campaign speech in nearby Fayetteville.
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