05/04/2007
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"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001, and still goes on."
"Where freedom takes hold, hatred gives way to hope."
"We will stand with the new leaders of Iraq as they establish a Government of, by, and for the Iraqi people."