After nine years, 4,500 American dead and 100,000 Iraqi dead, the USA on Thursday formally ended the war in Iraq as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the it was worth the American sacrifice, because it set Iraq on a path to democracy.
In addition to the dead, the war left 32,000 Americans injured and cost the U.S. more than $800 billion.
Panetta and several other U.S. diplomatic, military and defense leaders participated Thursday in a symbolic ceremony during which the flag of U.S. Forces-Iraq was officially retired.
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