Rachel Maddow Comments on the End of the Combat Phase of the Iraq War (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow has long been an opponent of the Iraq War. On the 'The Rachel Maddow Show' (weeknights, 9PM ET on MSNBC) she used the occasion of the last U.S. combat troops leaving Iraq to sum up her feelings on the situation:

"What I feel most acutely is the chasm between what humans are asked to do, what humans are put through, and the politics that puts them here," Maddow said, reporting from Baghdad. "Wars start for all sorts of reasons, some deserved ,some truthful, and some not deserved and not truthful. But wars end like this ... with a political settlement."

"4,415 American fatalities in this war, tens of thousands of Americans wounded," she continued. "The human cost that has been borne by the people who have been here -- the chasm between that and the grounds on which we made political decisions, some of which, looking back on them, feel so cheap and awful when we see the human toll that they caused -- that's what I feel the most acutely."

Now that the combat phase of the Iraq War is over, how do you feel?