WASHINGTON, July 4 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama welcomed hundreds of U.S. service members and their families to the White House for a July Fourth cookout Saturday. In a brief speech, Obama called his guests "the latest, strongest link in that unbroken chain that stretches back to the Continental Army." He spoke of the challenges to come in Iraq. "Iraq's future now rests in the hands of its own people," the president said. "As extraordinary an accomplishment as that is, we know that this transition won't be without problems. We know there...
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