U.S. Army soldiers with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, examine their CH-47 Chinook helicopter before an aircraft turnover mission at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on Dec. 1, 2009. The aircraft are scheduled to be flown to Talil, Iraq, where Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment will use them for support to Multi-National Division - South. DoD photo by Cpl. Joshua Murray, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)US Marines' Iraq Command Ends; Biden In Baghdad -- ABC News
US Marines draw down in Iraq as Biden holds talks in Baghdad on election 'blacklist'.
The U.S. Marines marked the end of nearly seven years in Iraq on Saturday by handing the Army their command of Anbar province, once one of the war's fiercest battlefields but now a centerpiece of U.S.-Iraqi cooperation.
The changing of the guard — overseen by military brass and some of Anbar's influential Sunni sheiks — signals the start of an accelerated drawdown of American troops as the U.S. increasingly shifts its focus to the war in Afghanistan.
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My Comment: And good riddance.
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