What Do You Think? Obama Says U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq by End of 2011

President Barack Obama has announced that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011.

The president revealed the news during a televised announcement that broke into regular programming early Friday afternoon.

The decision was made after the United States and Iraq were unable to agree on the presence of military trainers, Reuters news agency reported.

Military service members were sent to Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush and administration officials – in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks – said Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction that could fall into the al-Qaida terror network's hands.

The weapons were not found, but Hussein was captured in 2003 and executed in 2006.