NEW : Obama : `` Iraqis are rightly treating this day as a cause for celebration '' and not just because of the fact that we have liberated their country from Saddam Hussein. Bombing kills at least 30 in northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk , police official says . Earlier , the top U.S. general in Iraq insisted shortly before the Kirkuk bombing that much of the country is safe . ` Iraqi woman : `` Now that the Americans are leaving , we will be more afraid ''
NEW : Obama : `` Iraqis are rightly treating this day as a cause for celebration '' and not just because of the fact that we have liberated their country from Saddam Hussein. Bombing kills at least 30 in northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk , police official says . Iraqi woman : `` Now that the Americans are leaving , we will be more afraid ''