President Barack Obama kept a promise but took a risk in boldly declaring an end to 7 1/2 years of war in Iraq and asserting that America had turned the page both at home and abroad on the costly, divisive conflict.
In relatively brief but politically freighted remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, Obama lavished praise on America's military men and women, saying they had "stared into the darkest of human creations _ war _ and helped the Iraqi people seek the light of peace."
Obama's second address to the nation shifted quickly, however, to politics, with a reminder of his erstwhile opposition to the deeply unpopular war, a position that …
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