04/15/2009
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"You are welcome home with open arms from every corner of this country."
"He is very much -- it's odd. He is a kind of hard-headed realist from the Eisenhower/Nixon/Kissinger school, and he does not believe that the role of the U.S. military is to write a blank check to Afg..."
"Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest, it's in our own."
"So tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended."