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End of Iraq Combat Operations or Beginning of Downsized, Rebranded Occupation Relying Heavily on Private Military Contractors?

President Obama said Monday in a speech before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta that the US military is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. We speak with independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, who says this instead marks the beginning of a downsized and rebranded occupation that will rely heavily on private military forces. Ref. Source 2

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"I Have No Regret to Anybody in the Military. This Is Clearly a Failure of Our Government"-Iraq War Vet Dan Choi Discharged Under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

"As we mark the end of America's combat mission in Iraq," President Barack Obama said this week, "a grateful America must pay tribute to all who served there." He should have added "unless you're gay," because, despite his rhetoric, weeks earlier the commander-in-chief fired one of those Iraq vets: Lt. Dan Choi. Choi is a West Point graduate, an Arabic linguist and an Iraq war veteran. He was fired under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. We talk to him about his life, his coming out and his military service. Ref. Source 9

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Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq
By Gareth Porter

Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011. Ref. Source 4

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Last U.S. Brigade combat team

Military: Last U.S. Brigade combat team leaves Iraq; 56,000 troops remain. Fifty-thousand set to stay past August 31. Ref. CNN

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Iraq War Vet Camilo Mejía: US Withdrawal Plan Marks "Privatization of Military Occupation"

Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía, the first US combat veteran to publicly resist the war, joins us to give his reaction to the so-called US withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. Mejía served six months in Iraq in 2003 with the Florida National Guard. While on a two-week leave in the United States, he decided never to return. In May 2004, a military jury convicted him of desertion, and he was sentenced to one year in prison. He served nine months behind bars, prompting Amnesty International to declare him a prisoner of conscience. Ref. Source 6

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Less Than 50,000

Fewer than 50,000 U.S. Troops remain in Iraq; lowest troop level since 2003, U.S. Military says. Ref. CNN

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End Of Iraq Combat Mission

From Oval Office, President Obama calls end of Iraq combat mission "historic moment," notes "time of great uncertainty." Ref. CNN

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Withdrawal or Enduring Presence? US Military Continues to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Iraq Bases

In his Oval Office address Tuesday night, President Obama said the US had closed or transferred hundreds of bases to the Iraqis. But many US bases remain in Iraq, as well as the massive US embassy in Baghdad, the size of eighty football fields. We play a report on US bases in Iraq by independent journalist Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films. Ref. Source 7