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 - U.S. Marines play football in Karabilah, Iraq, near the Syrian border, on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005 during Thanksgiving celebrations. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg, File))
