It's been seven years, three months and 16 days since May 2, 2003. That's when George W. Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. That was a lie -- just like every reason Bush gave for the war itself.
Since then, there have been too many deaths and untold carnage. But, today, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq:
The last U.S. combat troops were crossing the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead.The operative word here is "combat." The U.S. will still have tens of thousands of soldiers in the country. But, they're now called "advisers."
The final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., were about to enter Kuwait shortly after 1:30 a.m. (6:30 p.m. Wednesday ET), carrying the last of the 14,000 U.S. combat forces in Iraq, said NBC’s Richard Engel, who has been traveling with the brigade as it moved out this week.
