MSNBC Airs Live Footage Of Last Combat Brigade Leaving Iraq

Capping off a night of extraordinary exclusive coverage live from Baghdad and featuring the network’s biggest stars, MSNBC was on the ground on the Kuwaiti border to see the last American combat soldier cross the border from Iraq.

NBC’s Richard Engel stood on the border of the two countries watching the convoys drive by, reporting back live to Keith Olbermann in New York. Engel had arrived at the border embedded with troops in Baghdad.

There are still non-combat troops– somewhere around 50,000– staying in Iraq for training missions and infrastructure work, so this isn’t exactly, as many have said on the network and elsewhere, the definitive last word on Iraq. But it is a milestone in the war, and perhaps an end to the war as we knew it for the past seven years.

The video via MSNBC below:

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