The Iraq war began on March 20, 2003, to rid Iraq of a dictator and eliminate his weapons of mass destruction. The images remain fresh even as the memories fade - the blinding flash of "shock and awe" bombing, the square-jawed confidence of an American president leading his people into war, the cowering prisoner trembling on the ground in the face of a small piece of American power.
(FILE - The mother of Samah Hussein cries over his body in a Baghdad, Iraq morgue on June 13, 2004 after he was killed when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside the U.S. military camp Cuervo. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban, File))
