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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 let's go to dominic denatali, streaming live from kirkuk today, with more on what we can expect. dominic. >> martha, here we are in the capital of kirkuk and it's not just a ca...

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 opening remarks, this is the confirmation hearing now under way for him to succeed the out going general...