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Them for their service as we prepare to officially end our fighting role in afghanistan after 13 years of conflict there. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer today. leah: i'm leah gabriel, the president and first lady thanking men and women of the armed forces for making the world safer and giving afghanistan a chance to rebuild. eric: dan springer is covering the president in hawaii where he is live in an early morning honolulu. dan, how are you, and what does the president have to say about this? >> reporter: good morning, it is early here, ...

Administration. the president has made clear they will not be in a fighting role. they'll be in an advisory role with the goal of building iraqi capacity to respond to the threat. when iraqis on the ground who have bad memories of the u.s. occupation see american uniforms they might make a different judgment and say these are fighters, they're not advisers. but it's a small presence. they're not going to be in the feel. they're going to be at regional headquarters, so it seems, it's the administration's view, that would be a minimal risk. >> nic robertson now in baghdad with established commun...

The relationship between u.s. and iran. his argument is that all of the countries have the same goal and that is stabilizing iraq because it is no one's interest to have a good part of the country under the control of militants as brutal as this. the trouble is, herding those cats to move towards that goal together. it's a lot of competing agendas, extreme diplomatic challenge for him. >> which is remarkable. one thing that has been made very clear, according to one newspaper report today, all of the various militias in this region one thing they don't want, they don't want american troops bac...

Thought teaching high school. vista. all the things i could do. i could become public information officer in the army, sign up. and different options i could go become a finance officer in the army. i didn't like the war. i didn't want to take a job that wasn't risky to say i was in the army. i'm not holding it against anybody. i didn't want to pretend i was in the military not have a fighting role. i said, i finally got this option to go in the peace corps in swaziland. i turned down options. i am not going to venezuela. not going there, not going to afghanistan. i'm going to africa. always w...