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country is still very much broken, yes a dictator has been removed, a tyrant has been removed, but there are still problems with water, power. many neighborhoods in baghdad only receive two, three, four hours of electricity a day and the sectarian tensions that exploded here in the war between sunnis and shiites in 2006/2007 is still really just below the surface. nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engle live for us in baghdad as this end of mission ceremony continues to be under way. kefl continue to cover it on msnbc. we re going to take a quick break. afterwards your first look at weather and entertainment is coming up. stay with us. [ female announcer ] find yourself sometimes cleaning up after your dishcloth? bounty extra soft can help. it s super durable, and in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface three times cleaner than a dishcloth. even with just one sheet. super clean.
fighting up in the northern part of what was south vietnam how do i feel about all this sacrifice, i had been there twice before, been wounded, how do i feel about leaving now? the mission was not complete or only partially complete. my comrades had been killed and badly wounded. how did i feel about it? you feel terrible about it. at the end of the day your focus on the battlefield is on your comrades and it s very difficult to shake that. jack jacobs, we are going to rejoin with you in just a few minutes after this break as well as live coverage of this end of mission ceremony, right here on msnbc. stay with us. nyquil: you know i relieve coughs, sneezing, fevers?
30,000 wounded warriors, many of whom still struggle with serious, life-altering injuries. reporter: it s estimated more than 150,000 iraqis lost their lives in the war. most of them civilians. 16 days to go before the typical american worker gets hit with $1,000 a year tax increase. there are some signs now republicans, democrats, might, might break their log jam over extending the payroll tax cut. democratic source says that president obama may drop his plan for a millionaire surtax to cover the cost of extending it. republicans oppose any new taxes on the wealthy. they would like to pay for the extension primarily by freezing ped ral pay. mitt romney rolling out an aggressive new strategy to stop newt gingrich. romney, in a flurry of interviews, says gingrich and his policy ideas are zany. that s right. he says we don t need zany in a president. he labels gingrich an unreliable conservative. gingrich climbed to the top of national presidential polls after herman cain
oppose this bad deal and come together, pas a long term clean extension of employment benefits. that s the thing to do. this bill is terrible. it is terrible. the holidays must have come early for the majority. what we have here is a serious proposal? it s a stocking stuffed to the brim with ideology. the focus now shifts to the senate where majority leader harry reid has vowed to defeat the house republican plan before final year end showdown begins. the obama administration is marking the end of the u.s. led war in iraq with events overseas and here at home. president obama heads to ft. bragg in north carolina today to meet with service members and their families. his defense secretary meanwhile is expected to attend an end of mission ceremony in baghdad. vice president joe biden speaking last night to rachel maddow reflected on the end of