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and this is "state of the union." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the remaining 39,000 u.s. troops in iraq will be out by december, the fulfillment of an obama campaign promise, the end of a war, the beginning of the unknown. >> i think that they deserve a great credit. at the same time, we are now leaving iraq completely which is the number-one priority of the iranians. >> another journey into the unknown is full throttle in libya now, after the brutal death of its brutal dictator, moammar gadhafi. only two days earlier, secretary of state hillary clinton was in libya, pledg...

Stuff. but as libya's new leaders prepare to declare new liberation, there are plenty of people who say they're just happy he's gone. greg has more from misrata. >> hey, rick. happy indeed. they are happy in misrata, happy across the country. for the third night running since the death of moammar gadhafi, people have been celebrating, shooting guns off into the air, squealing their cars up and down the street. this on the eve, rick, of what they call a day of national liberation. tomorrow, sunday, that will declare hostilities completely over here. more or less in libya with the death of moamm...

Week? >> for me i learned the libya national council has one woman minister, the minister of women's affair. i have no faith in any government being able to rebuild its country fully if it doesn't include women fully. not only in women's affairs, family affairs, but in defense and development and economy and all of these things. so, this is the role that america can help in pushing that. in this transitional moment we need more women in the discussion. >> this is the transitional council which is the governing body of post-gadhafi libya. >> novelist, libyan, what do you now know? >> i was surp...

But this is just the beginning. >> ambassador of the united states from post gadhafi government in libya was asked for his response to gadhafi's death. he said this. >> thank you very much, america. thank you. you took the right decision. >> thank you very much, america. you took the right decision. in february against the backdrop of the popular uprisings all over the arab world, the arab spring, the deck it thor of tunisia, falling in a matter of days, of mosting mubarak in egypt, the border of both of those places be the people of libya took to the streets against their own seemingly perm...

Tonight. >> thank you very much. ways here in new york when i got the call early this morning that there were these reports that gadhafi was captured. and i think i've been in this building ever since. >> we sort of knew this day might be coming. it a eemed like the fall of gadhafi became inevitable during this uprising. a year ago today, could you have for seen a popular uprising in libya toppling him? >> absolutely not. gadhafi was strong. after the iraq war, when he decided to give up his weapons program, he was emerging as a international figure again. he would come in from the cold. he wa...