Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111213:05:15:00
At the height of the nearly nine-year war in iraq, there were 170,000 american troops stationed in iraq. by the end of this month, there will be zero. not a single member of the united states military will be stationed in iraq. they're leaving at a break-neck pace of literally hundreds of troops a day. the few u.s. bases that remain look like this. vacant lots of abandoned vehicle, empty housing containers. more of a ghost town than a battlefield. more of a desert that a bustling military installation. more of an exit than an occupation. the end of this war will be final and complete. but it's...