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    January 19, 2012

Former US Officials Debate What Achieved in Iraq

   André de Nesnera | Washington
   Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS
   A soldier with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division folds
   up a U.S. flag outside their Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP)
   vehicle before leaving Camp Adder near Nasiriyah to travel with the
   last U.S. military convoy to leave Iraq Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. The last
   U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border to neighboring
   Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each
   other in a burst of joy and relief. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson, Pool)