The World and Everything In It
Oct 1, 2026 · 38 min · 14 segments
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President Trump is celebrating the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.
I'm pleased to announce that the last American forces are leaving Iraq.
[cheering]
The Pentagon says the final troops left an air base in Erbil on Wednesday.
The moment comes twenty-three years after President George W. Bush sent American forces into Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.
Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly, yet our purpose is sure.
Trump on Wednesday again called that war a mistake, but the troops leaving now were not fighting it.
Critics of President Obama's decision, including his own Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, said the White House did not push hard enough to keep a residual force, and that the withdrawal helped to create a power vacuum that ISIS rose up to fill.
In twenty fourteen, Obama sent troops back to fight the terror group, and that is the mission ending now.
So this day is a victory for the United States.
It's a victory for Iraq and a decisive victory over ISIS, which has been completely decimated, which is the reason we went in there in the first place.
But officials in Iraq's Kurdish region say losing American air defenses worries them after more than a thousand drone and missile attacks there during this year's U.S. war with Iran.
Terror in the skies over the Middle East after a pilot apparently tried to hijack a commercial airliner.
Why? We need, we need, we need video.
We need video.
No, no, no
No, we need-
President Trump is celebrating the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.
I'm pleased to announce that the last American forces are leaving Iraq.
[cheering]
The Pentagon says the final troops left an air base in Erbil on Wednesday.
The moment comes twenty-three years after President George W. Bush sent American forces into Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.
Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly, yet our purpose is sure.
Trump on Wednesday again called that war a mistake, but the troops leaving now were not fighting it.
Critics of President Obama's decision, including his own Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, said the White House did not push hard enough to keep a residual force, and that the withdrawal helped to create a power vacuum that ISIS rose up to fill.
In twenty fourteen, Obama sent troops back to fight the terror group, and that is the mission ending now.
So this day is a victory for the United States.
It's a victory for Iraq and a decisive victory over ISIS, which has been completely decimated, which is the reason we went in there in the first place.
But officials in Iraq's Kurdish region say losing American air defenses worries them after more than a thousand drone and missile attacks there during this year's U.S. war with Iran.
Terror in the skies over the Middle East after a pilot apparently tried to hijack a commercial airliner.
Why? We need, we need, we need video.
We need video.
No, no, no
No, we need-
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