One chapter ends of the US of A

President Barack Obama yesterday confirmed that the 40,000 American troops involved in Iraq are going home.

In effect this ends the nine year long war that started with the Bush Administration.

Since 2010, Mr Obama has confirmed that the combat mission was over but peacekeeping continued.

An opponent to the war from the beginning and a key promise to the American president, it arguably could not come at a better time for the embattled leader.

As the 2012 election races up upon America, Obama has not been faring too well in the polls as the economy struggles and a cooperative relationship between the Republican and Democrat parties has been less than welcoming.

It has been an uphill battle for the President, all the way from his inauguration to the moments when he declared he struck an 11^th hour deal with the Republican to avoid declaring America in a state of economic debt default.

But a popularity boost is not what the key reason to this post is, rather it is write that the Iraq war is essentially over, and so begins a new chapter for the US of A in that  there is one less war to consider.