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Responsibly. and we followed that plan very closely. because of the significant help and leadership of our military. as a result, one week from tomorrow, u.s. combat forces will phase out their combat mission as we begin to bring the combat phase of this war to close. >> laura: back when he was a senator president obama opposed the surgeon strategy that enabled our success in iraq. >> this surge concept is, in fact, no different from what we have repeatedly tried but with 20,000 troops we will not in any imaginable way be able to accomplish any new progress. the fact of the matter is, that we ...

Responsibly. and we followed that plan very closely. because of the significant help and leadership of our military. as a result, one week from tomorrow, u.s. combat forces will phase out their combat mission as we begin to bring the combat phase of this war to close. >> laura: back when he was a senator president obama opposed the surgeon strategy that enabled our success in iraq. >> this surge concept is, in fact, no different from what we have repeatedly tried but with 20,000 troops we will not in any imaginable way be able to accomplish any new progress. the fact of the matter is, that we ...

Responsibly. and we followed that plan very closely. because of the significant help and leadership of our military. as a result, one week from tomorrow, u.s. combat forces will phase out their combat mission as we begin to bring the combat phase of this war to close. >> laura: back when he was a senator president obama opposed the surgeon strategy that enabled our success in iraq. >> this surge concept is, in fact, no different from what we have repeatedly tried but with 20,000 troops we will not in any imaginable way be able to accomplish any new progress. the fact of the matter is, that we ...

The general in charge in iraq says we have met our goal. for the first time since the operat=9jez iraq started the military force level is below 50,000. it's official. and now to the vineyard. how is it? are we still at war over there? we will be at war forever over there. >>reporter: bake question, an important question which i thought of it. and now a look at the answer on that. >> we have two theaters of military operations, iraq and afghanistan. we have 50,000 troops inside of iraq. >>reporter: so we have military operations in iraq so we are still at war in iraq but the combat phase is cl...

Base before the november election, i promised to end combat operations in iraq and i have delivered on this promise. that's a big deal to the left. the truth is that the draw-down was negotiated by president bush. and he is trying to reinforce to those who opposed this war that come july, we are going to withdraw troops. the only issue is how fast and how many. and general conway hut his finger on the problem. when you announce you are going to withdraw troops in july, the enemy doesn't hear an enduring commitment, they hear that you are going to leave. so he has really made a mess of it in af...