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Pres. GEORGE W. BUSH: [January 28, 2003] Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option! ANNOUNCER: Last month, a group of close advisers were ...

DONALD RUMSFELD, Secretary of Defense: Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes! ANNOUNCER:-and the year the war began. Amb. L. PAUL BREMER, Administrator, CPA: The insurgency ...

FRONTLINE first reported on the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in early February 2014, months before the group made international headlines declaring its own caliphate. Since then, ...

BARHAM SALIH, Deputy Prime Minister, Iraq: These crimes are heinous crimes, terrible acts. I would even call what happened in Haditha a war crime. ANNOUNCER: Marines accused of going on a rampage, ...

» Iraq Insurgency Goals This Q&A from the Council on Foreign Relations examines the various goals galvanizing the insurgent groups. (May 20, 2005) » Iraq Insurgency This site, from globalsecurity.org, ...

In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to topple dictator Saddam Hussein. During the subsequent eight years, the U.S. spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives fighting an ...