U.S. will leave Iraq to Iraqis, says Obama

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: New U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the United States will leave Iraq to Iraqis. In a speech upon taking office, Obama echoed key promises from his historic election campaign by saying: “we will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people.” Barack Hussein Obama has taken the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States . With a hand on Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural bible, and before a crowd stretching across the National Mall toward where Martin Luther King Jr . spoke of his dream of racial equality, the 47-year-old Obama was sworn in as the first black American president by Chief Justice John Roberts   SH (P)/SR 1