The AP is <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-total-iraq-troop-withdrawal-165635034.html" target="_blank">reporting</a> that Obama has declared an end to the Iraq war, and will withdraw troops by the end of the year.  In August 2010, he declared the U.S. combat mission over.  The <a href="http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm" target="_blank">cost</a> of the war is 9 billion dollars, and 4,481 US Soldiers Killed, 32,195 Seriously Wounded.

As many of you will no doubt denounce the decision or praise it, tell us why.  Do you think this is a good decision or a bad one.

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