Via: WRAL.com

Today president OBAMA will return to Washington to address the nation and formally end the combat mission in Iraq that has lasted more than 7 years…

The White House sees today’s benchmark as a promise kept. Obama will also honor those who have served in Iraq since the March 2003. Under a security agreement signed between the U.S. and Iraq before Obama took office, all U.S. forces must leave Iraq by the end of 2011