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...