The Hawaii Independent

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Lihue, KAUAI -- March 20 marks the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Currently the U.S. has some 96,000 troops in that country, nearly six years after then-U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer formally transferred sovereignty back to the Iraqi government. While troop levels have fallen to below 100,000 for the first time since “Shock and Awe,” the Obama plan keeps at least 50,000 U.S. military personnel in Iraq through next summer.

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