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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (R) arrives at Camp Ramadi in Iraq to visit troops from the 4th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, 01 Sep 2010
Gates Visits Birthplace of Iraqi Turnaround
US defense secretary stops in al-Anbar Province on way to Baghdad to mark formal end of US combat operations in Iraq
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Tonight marks the end of the American combat mission in Iraq.
As a candidate for this office, I pledged to end this war responsibly. And, as President, that is what I am doing.
Since I became Commander-in-Chief, we've brought home nearly 100,000 U.S. troops. We've closed or turned over to Iraq hundreds of our bases.
As Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, our commitment to a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq continues. Under Operation New Dawn, a transitional force of U.S. troops will remain to advise and assist Iraqi forces, protect our civilians on the ground, and pursue targeted counterterrorism efforts.
By the end of next year, consistent with our agreement with the Iraqi government, these men and women, too, will come home.
Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest -- it is in our own. Our nation has paid a huge price to put Iraq's future in the hands of its people. We have sent our men and women in uniform to make enormous sacrifices. We have spent vast resources abroad in the face of several years of recession at home.
We have met our responsibility through the courage and resolve of our women and men in uniform.
In seven years, they confronted a mission as challenging and as complex as any our military has ever been asked to face.
Nearly 1.5 million Americans put their lives on the line. Many returned for multiple tours of duty, far from their loved ones who bore a heroic burden of their own. And most painfully, more than 4,400 Americans have given their lives, fighting for people they never knew, for values that have defined our people for more than two centuries.
What their country asked of them was not small. And what they sacrificed was not easy.
For that, each and every American owes them our heartfelt thanks.
Our promise to them -- to each woman or man who has donned our colors -- is that our country will serve them as faithfully as they have served us. We have already made the largest increase in funding for veterans in decades. So long as I am President, I will do whatever it takes to fulfill that sacred trust.
Tonight, we mark a milestone in our nation's history. Even at a time of great uncertainty for so many Americans, this day and our brave troops remind us that our future is in our own hands and that our best days lie ahead.
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
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အထဲသို႔ ဦးရုကၡစိုး အသာေလး ေခ်ာင္းၾကည့္လိုက္ရာ ခါတိုင္းႏွင့္မူကြဲ စြတ္က်ယ္ဝတ္ ခ်ိဳကုပ္ဒူးႀကီး အလုပ္ရႈပ္ ေနသည္ကို ေတြ႕လိုက္ရသည္။ အခန္းထဲတြင္ ခ်ိဳျပဳတ္ ကေတာ္မ်ားက ေအာ္ႀကီး ဟစ္က်ယ္ ငိုသူကငို၊ သတိလစ္သူကလစ္၊ ၀မ္းလ်ား ေမွာက္သူက ေမွာက္၊ ခ်ိဳကုပ္ဒူးႀကီး၏ ေျခသလံုးကို ဖက္၍ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး အဖံုဖံု ေတာင္းပန္သူက ေတာင္းပန္ႏွင့္ ျဖစ္ခ်င္တုိင္း ျဖစ္ေနၾက သည္။ 
လာမည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၌ ႀကံ့ဖြတ္ပါတီအႏိုင္ရေရးအတြက္ လား႐ႈိးႀကီး ‘ယူလီခ’ေဆးခန္းပိုင္႐ွင္ သွ်မ္းဆရာ၀န္ေဒါက္တာ စိုင္းေမာက္ခမ္းက အခမဲ့ေဆးကုေပးမည္ဟု လူထုက်န္းမာေရး အေၾကာင္းျပဳမက္လံုးေပးၿပီး စည္းရံုးေရး ဆင္းေနေၾကာင္း သွ်မ္းျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း သတင္းရပ္ကြက္ကဆိုပါသည္။
နအဖ၏ လက္နက္စြန္႔ေရး ရာဇသံကို ကခ်င္ျပည္လြတ္လပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ (KIO) က ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွ ခြဲထြက္ေရးမူ စြန္႔လြတ္၍ ပင္လံုမူအတိုင္း ရပ္တည္မည္ဟု ေဖၚျပထားေသာ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ျဖင့္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႔က တုန္႔ျပန္လိုက္သည္။
စက္တင္ဘာ ၁ ရက္ေန႔ေနာက္ဆံုးထား၍ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ၀ နယ္သို႔တပ္႐ုပ္မျပန္လွ်င္ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္မည္ဟု နအဖဖက္မွၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ ထားေသာေၾကာင့္ ေတာင္ပိုင္း ၀ တပ္ဖြဲ႕မ်ားလႈပ္လႈပ္ရွားရွားျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိရွိရပါသည္။
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊကို ”အာဏာ႐ူးၾကီး” ဟု ေဝဖန္ခဲ့သည္ဆိုေသာ စြဲခ်က္ျဖင့္ ေထာင္က် ... 
ရက္အနည္းငယ္အတြင္းတြင္ မၾကံဳစဖူးမ်ားျပား လွေသာ ကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား ထုိင္းျမန္မာ ... 
စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ အဆက္သြယ္ရွိသည့္ စီးပြားေရးသမားၾကီးက ဟူးေကာင္းေတာင္ ... 
နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ အသြင္ေျပာင္းရန္ မနက္ျဖန္ ေနာက္ဆံုးရက္အျဖစ္ စစ္အစိုးရ ... 
ပဲခူးျမစ္ေရ လွ်ံတက္ေနမႈေၾကာင့္ ပဲခူးၿမိဳ႕တြင္းက လူေနရပ္ကြက္ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားမွာ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၃၁ ရက္ ဒီကေန႔ တတိယေျမာက္ေန႔ အျဖစ္ ဆက္လက္ ေရနစ္ျမဳပ္ေနဆဲ ျဖစ္ၿပီး ေရေဘးဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ အေရးေပၚအကူအညီေတြ လိုအပ္ေနတယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ 
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေအာက္ပိုင္းမွာ က်ေရာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး လူေပါင္း ၁ သိန္းေက်ာ္ ေသဆံုးပ်က္စီးခဲ့ရတဲ့ ဆိုက္ကလုံးနာဂစ္ မုန္တိုင္းေဘးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ အာဆီယံနဲ႔ ကုလသမဂၢတို႔ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၃၀ ရက္ မေန႔က ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံ ဗန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတရပ္ က်င္းပခဲ့ပါတယ္။
စစ္အစိုးရက်င္းပမဲ့ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ့ သေဘာထားနဲ႔ အမွာစကားကို မေကြးတိုင္း အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ လူငယ္အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ေတြက ေဒသအတြင္းမွာ ေနထိုင္တဲ့ ျပည္သူလူထုကို လႈပ္ရွားမႈတခုအေနနဲ႔ လိုက္လံၿပီး ရွင္းျပေနတယ္လို႔ အင္န္အယ္လ္ဒီ လူငယ္ ကိုေနမ်ိဳးေက်ာ္က RFA ကို ေျပာျပပါတယ္၊ 
စစ္အစိုးရအဆိုျပဳထားတဲ့ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းေရး အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ကို ကခ်င္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္ ေကအိုင္အို အဖြဲ႕က ဒီကေန႔ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၃၁ ရက္မွာ သေဘာထား ေၾကညာခ်က္တေစာင္ထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီး တရားဝင္ ျငင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာစစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြ ယူနီေဖာင္းခြ်တ္ၿပီး၊ အရပ္ဝတ္လဲေပမဲ့လဲ အာဏာရွင္ေတြ အျဖစ္ကေန ေျပာင္းလဲမသြားေၾကာင္း ဒါေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ျပႆနာေတြအေပၚ အေမရိကန္ အစိုးရရဲ့ ႐ႈျမင္မႈဟာလည္း မေျပာင္းလဲေၾကာင္း အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူတဦးက ေျပာၾကား လိုက္ပါတယ္။
