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The Iraq Barometer: Sobering Milestones Frame the Conflict on the Ground

March 19, 2008 marked the fifth anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq. Our time there has spanned longer than both World War II (three years, eight months) and the Civil War (four years). Only the Vietnam War (eight years, five months) and the Revolutionary War (six years, nine months) have engaged America longer. Four days later, on March 23, 2008, four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing in a neighborhood in southern Baghdad, bringing the death toll to a haunting 4,000 Americans...

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Robert Friedman

Robert Andrew Friedman is an Associate in the Washington D.C. office of Venable LLP. Robert is a non-resident Fellow at the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law and a Truman National Security Fellow. Most recently, he was a Law Clerk on the Senate Judiciary Committee staff of Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-RI) where he worked on national security issues and executive and judicial nominations. He was previously an aide to Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) where he handled speechwriting, policy analysis and constituent outreach in the areas of immigration, education, and housing. Robert has also worked for the vice chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Robert graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center where he was the Senior Notes Editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. He received a B.A. in political science from Emory University and studied public international law and conflict resolution at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in Government from Johns Hopkins University.