NYTIMES - SAIDA DAS TROPAS AMERICANAS DO IRAQUE

U.S. Marks End to 9-Year War, Leaving an Uncertain Iraq

Andrea Bruce for The New York Times

American forces, arriving in Kuwait in one of the last convoys out of Iraq, took the same highway they came in on in 2003.

By TIM ARANGO

Published: December 15, 2011

BAGHDAD — At a crowded market in the city center here, the flotsam of the war is for sale. Ripped Fuel workout supplement. Ready-to-eat meals, macaroni and cheese “Mexican style.” Pistol holsters. Nothing seems off limits to the merchants out for a quick dinar, not even a bottle of prescription pills from a pharmacy in Waco, Tex., probably tossed out by a departing soldier.