Out Going General News Today

With troops who have already served in iraq, and this as president obama gets ready for a big speech tonight, a primetime speech that will mark the formal end of the u.s. combat mission in iraq, and meanwhile, the troop draw down comes to a close and the u.s. is leaving behind a special task force in the northern city of kirkuk, part of the region with strong ethnic and sectarian and political tensions in that area, and lets go to dominic denatali, streaming live from kirkuk today, with more on ...

There are currently nearly 140,000 coalition troopers and over 235,000 afghan security force members, engaged in hard work, very much worth doing in afghanistan. if i am confirmed by the senate, it will be a great privilege to soldier with them, in that hard work, that is so worth doing, in that country. thank you very much. >> thank you, general petraeus. let me, since we now have a conform take care of some important committee business... bill: a few headlines from general petraeus in his open...