Biden presides over ceremonial handover in Iraq

On Thursday December 1, 2011 vice President Joe Biden flew in to Iraq to join the handover ceremony of Camp Victory to the Iraqi forces. In the ceremony the Vice President paid respects to all the troops that have lost theirlives defending the camp and and celebrated the leaving of the United States. Citizens of Iraq have mixed feelings about this departure and the hands the country was in. Some say that the Iraqi forces are not ready to handle all the violance that happens but some have hope in the goverment and say that their country has grown and learned how to defend its self over the past nine years. Iraq's president Jalal Talabani said during the ceremony " History will record that the liberation of our country was not only an important turning point in iraq itself, but it was an important beginning for the region". No-one called it a handover ceremony because the war will not be over until the last troops leave in a few weeks. Now the camp that was once a symbol of American presence is now in Iraqi hands to keep the people safe.-stltoday