MSNBC is covering the last troops crossing the border into Kuwait. Naturally the MSNBC website is especially clunky tonight and despite having exclusive video, there's no live online feed.
NEAR THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER — The last U.S. combat troops were crossing the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead.
But this was certainly a surprise. And quite a relief.
This was nearly eight years ago: