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over and out. the u.s. military lowers the flag in baghdad. the final u.s. troops leaving iraq with pride. and putting a fragile nation in the rear view mirror. >> breaking news for your paycheck. big compromise on capitol hill that could put $1,000 or more back into your paycheck next year. occupy gingrich. newt gets heckled by wall street protesters. they get it back on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 15. welcome to "american morning." good morning, carol. >> good morning, christine. good morning to all of you. it's over. minutes ago u....

endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. >> that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead in the horse race. look at this, hypothetical matchups next november. president obama versus gingric...

Defeated, the internal sr-pblgs is better. if you look at the level of violence when you and i were there, there were hundreds a day dying. now we don't see that anymore. i think the real question among the american military is how much better can we make them without us being there, particularly their ability to fight or confront outside states, such as -- well, such as iran, and i think there's a sense that the american military leaving so precipitously, that a lot of that follow-on training, the sophisticated stuff, air defense, mechanized warfare, transportation, command and control, all t...

this in an interview, cbs's ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we haven't gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. all right. a lot of political buzz this morning that's centering on the weekend's gop debate. it wa...

Reports on the growing problem iran poses for much of the world. >> protesters stormed two british diplomatic compounds in tehran, sparking condemnation from the united nations to the white house. >> that behavior is not acceptable, and i strongly urge the iranian government to hold those responsible to task for rioters to essentially be able to overrun the embassy and set it on fire is an indication that the iranian government is not taking its international obligation seriously. >> the crisis in tehran played out as vice president biden landed in iraq for a surprise trip. amid questions abou...