အခ်ိန္ ၇ ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ ၾကာျမင့္စြာ ဆင္ႏြဲခဲ့ေသာ အီရတ္စစ္ပြဲကို အဆံုးသတ္ျပီဟု အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ဘာရတ္ အိုဘားမားက ၾသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ ရက္ စေနေန႔ က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။

"အဓိကက်တဲ့ အခ်က္ကေတာ့ အီရတ္စစ္ပြဲ အဆံုးသတ္လိုက္ပါျပီ" ဟု သမၼတ အိုဘားမားက ေရဒီယိုႏွင့္ အင္တာနက္ ဝဘ္ေပၚမွတစ္ဆင့္ ၎၏ ႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားအား ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။"အခ်ိန္ ၇ ႏွစ္ၾကာျပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ လာမယ့္ အဂၤါေန႔မွာ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အေနနဲ႔ အီရတ္ စစ္ေျမျပင္က ထိုးစစ္ေတြကို အဆံုးသတ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါဟာ အီရတ္စစ္ပြဲ အဆံုးသတ္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ အတြက္ အေရးပါတဲ့ အဆင့္တစ္ခုပါပဲ" ဟု အိုဘားမားက ေျပာၾကားပါသည္။

ၾသဂုတ္လ ၃၁ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အေနျဖင့္ အီရတ္ စစ္ေျမျပင္ရွိ ထိုးစစ္ အားလံုးကို ရုပ္ဆိုင္းျပီး စစ္တပ္မ်ားအားလံုး ျပန္လည္ ရုပ္သိမ္းမည္ဟု သိရသည္။

Obama says Iraq war is ending

Soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, returning from a deployment to Taji, Iraq, arrive at the Andrews Joint Base outside Washington D.C., capital of the United States, Aug. 28, 2010.  (Xinhua/Zhang Jun)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- After seven years and thousands of U.S. military deaths, U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday said the Iraq war is ending.

"The bottom line is this: the war is ending," Obama told the nation in his weekly address broadcast on radio and the web. On Aug. 31, the United States is ending its combat mission in Iraq, with the end of next year as the deadline to withdraw all troops from that country.

"On Tuesday, after more than seven years, the United States of America will end its combat mission in Iraq and take an important step forward in responsibly ending the Iraq war," Obama said.

He said as a candidate for president, he had pledged he would end this war, and that's what he is doing as president.

"We have brought home more than 90,000 troops since I took office. We have closed or turned over to Iraq hundreds of bases. In many parts of the country, Iraqis have already taken the lead for security," said Obama.

After ending combat mission, about 50,000 U.S. troops will conduct training and assistance missions in Iraq, partner with Iraqis in counterterrorism missions, and also protect U.S. civilian and military efforts there.

Obama will deliver an Oval Office speech on Aug. 31 to mark the end of Iraqi combat missions. White House spokesman Bill Burton said the president will talk about "the importance of the milepost that day is as we change missions in Iraq," as well as U.S. policy toward Iraq.

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