In just 72 hours remaining 4,000 U.S. troops in Iraq completed its output. The last 500 they did yesterday at 7.38 in the morning on a column of 110 armored vehicles from the base of Camp Adder, 300 miles south of Baghdad, bound for Kuwait. U.S. forces went quietly and with little cameras , nothing to do with the bombing of Baghdad continued to live the war that opened the night of March 20, 2003.
Barack Obama fulfills a campaign promise and close a nine-year war leaving behind a devastated country in the hands of a very fragile democracy. A country where they have so clearly the end of the invasion and why the speaker of parliament raised his voice to criticize the "illogical" the presence of 15,000 people in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
The Iraq "free, sovereign and independent" as defined by the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, the ceremony of the flag lowered on Thursday, begins a new stage marked by the wounds that left an occupation of almost a decade. As Americans concluded the enormous logistical work has meant taking all the material and remove the base where he had 170,000 men , the tension between political forces in the country grew up to lead on Saturday in the withdrawal of parliament deputies Iraqiya , the most voted in recent elections. They went to show their dissatisfaction with the form of government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, opening yet another political crisis of the young Iraqi system.
With the departure of the Americans it is time for Iraqis to decide the model of country they want. The door opened to federalism the Kurds with the creation of their autonomous region, serving since 2003 as a state within the state. In recent months, several local leaders from provinces like Diyala Salahadin or have asked to hold the necessary referendum to establish new federal regions, a move by the Sunni majority areas who feel discriminated against by the central government in the hands of the Shiite majority.
Oil recovery
One of the positive legacy of the past nine years is the gradual recovery of oil production. The black gold back to Iraqi underground spring from which is also a challenge for one of the most corrupt administrations in the world.
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