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Illustration: Iraq by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

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A man look at a destroyed car, salvaged from the March 5, 2007 bombing of a historic street book market in Baghdad, Iraq, that killed 38 people and currently exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, in London Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Artist Jeremy Deller has worked with the museum to present the vehicle as evidence of the impact of modern warfare on civilians by displaying it in the museum's main atrium alongside some of the most powerful military hardware of the last 100 years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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People surround a destroyed car, bottom, salvaged from the March 5, 2007 bombing of a historic street book market in Baghdad, Iraq, that killed 38 people and currently exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, in London Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Artist Jeremy Deller has worked with the museum to present the vehicle as evidence of the impact of modern warfare on civilians by displaying it in the museum's main atrium alongside some of the most powerful military hardware of the last 100 years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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An AK-47, with Saddam Hussein's image on it, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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An AK-47, with Saddam Hussein's image on it, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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A Babylonian clay foundation cone, ca. 2100 BC, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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In this image made from television, Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Ubaidi (center), accompanied by soldiers, inspects the site of a suicide bombing at a military headquarters in Baghdad on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/APTN)

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** FILE ** In a Monday, July 21, 2008, file photo, Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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This 2005 photo released by the White family on May 27, 2010, shows Marine and Iraq war veteran Andrew White of Cross Lanes, W. Va., in Iraq. White died at his family home in his sleep on Feb. 12, 2008, while taking a powerful antipsychotic prescribed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. (AP Photo/The White Family) NO SALES.

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** FILE ** Vice President Joseph R. Biden (second from left) meets in Baghdad on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, with (from left) Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the outgoing U.S. commander in Iraq; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey; Marine Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Central Command; and Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the incoming commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. The change of command ceremony was held Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (right) stands with Purple Heart recipient Spc. Shawn Mason of New Cumberland, Pa., as the secretary visits with troops from the 4th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, at Camp Ramadi in Iraq on Wednesday. Mr. Gates is in Iraq to meet with U.S. troops as they formally close down their combat mission. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama says from the Oval Office on Tuesday night that U.S. combat operations in Iraq are over. He warns, however, that violence and political turmoil continue to plague the Mideast nation, so America's mission there isn't complete.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama will meet Tuesday with soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas, hours before he delivers a prime-time speech from the Oval Office to mark the departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.

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Illustration: Iraq

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left) speaks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (center) and Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (right), the top U.S. commander in Iraq, in Baghdad on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Mr. Biden returned to Iraq to mark this week's formal end to U.S. combat operations and to push the country's leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking the formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin lead an Iraq war "teach-in" Sunday in Washington seeking accountability for the U.S. role in the war and any torture.