U.S. Military In Iraq

A Tomahawk missile is fired from the deck of the USS McCain destroyer on day one of the U.S.-led attack on Iraq, March 20, 2003.

U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit help an Iraqi soldier with water from a canteen in southern Iraq, March 21, 2003.

Iraqi soldiers, waving white flag and raising their arms, attempt to surrender to passing journalists outside the demilitarized zone in southern Iraq, March 21, 2003.

Iraqi Information Minister Mohamed Said Al-Sahaf holds up part of a missile that reportedly hit a residential area in Baghdad, March 26, 2003. At right is a portrait of Saddam Hussein.

Smoke bellows from a large explosion that rocked Baghdad, Iraq during air raids, March 31, 2003.

Capt. Chris Carter, commander of A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment, calls in an armored ambulance for an injured woman who was caught in the crossfire with Iraqi forces over the Euphrates River when the U.S. Army siezed a bridge in Al Hindiyah, Iraq, March 31, 2003.

U.S. Army soldiers from the A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, cover up during an intense sandstorm which slowed U.S. military progress near Karbala, Iraq, March 25, 2003.

A U.S. Army vehicle from the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, smashes a mosaic of Saddam Hussein outside the Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division headquarters south of Baghdad, April 5, 2003.

U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged after a bombing in Baghdad, April 7, 2003.

U.S. Marines with India Co., 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, provide cover fire as other Marines advance on the headquarters of the Fedayeen in Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

This is a U.S. military photo released in Baghdad, Iraq on July 24, 2003, of the body of Saddam Hussein's son Qusai who was killed July 22 by U.S. forces in a raid on a house in the town of Mosul, northern Iraq.

L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator for Iraq sits in front of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers at the graduation ceremony for the first group of soldiers in the new Iraqi army, at Kir Kush, Iraq, Oct. 4, 2003

An Italian Army soldier gesture next to the barracks building which was destroyed by a car bomb, at the headquarters of Italy's paramilitary police in Nasiriyah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2003. Eighteen Italians were killed in the attack.

U.S. President George W. Bush carries a platter of turkey and fixings as he visits U.S. troops for Thanksgiving in Baghdad, Nov. 27, 2003.

The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force conducts convoy operations training at Camp Pendleton's military operations urban terrain combat town, Dec. 12, 2003. One year after the Marines stormed across the desert into Baghdad to defeat Saddam Hussein's forces, troops from Camp Pendleton were taking over control of western Iraq from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.

A U.S. Army soldier guards the entrance of Camp Bonzai after a stone-throwing mob attacked U.S. forces near the base, in this March 2, 2004. Soldiers had been treating Iraqis injured resulting from multiple explosions at the nearby Imam Kadhim Shrine when the mob attacked the troops and chased them back to the base.

Spanish soldiers watch as members of the newly-trained Iraqi Army frisk motorists at a mobile checkpoint in Diwaniya, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, March 11, 2004.

National Guard soldiers from the 122nd Engineer Battalion return from Iraq to a welcome home cerermony at Strom Thurmond High School, March 11, 2004, in Edgefield, S.C.

U.S. troops frisk motorists at a mobile checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, March 12, 2004.