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Published December 07, 2009, 12:00 AM

DECADE'S END: The wars


This April 13, 2003 file photo shows looters pushing carts with furniture through the streets of Baghdad, Iraq. The country is moving toward some level of stability. But it came only after years that pushed Iraq perilously close to civil war between the Sunnis who lost power after Saddam's fall and the majority Shiites who took control of the aftermath. The tallies: more than 4,350 U.S. soldiers dead; at least 87,500 Iraqi civilians killed, according to government figures. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)


  • This April 13, 2003 file photo shows looters pushing carts with furniture through the streets of Baghdad, Iraq. The country is moving toward some level of stability. But it came only after years that pushed Iraq perilously close to civil war between the Sunnis who lost power after Saddam's fall and the majority Shiites who took control of the aftermath. The tallies: more than 4,350 U.S. soldiers dead; at least 87,500 Iraqi civilians killed, according to government figures. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)<br /><br />
  • MAY 1, 2003: President Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast. The White House said April 30, 2008, that President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)<br /><br /><br /><br />
  • NOV. 28, 2009: Iraqi boys point their new plastic toy guns at another boy as they play, during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)<br /><br /><br /><br />
  • APRIL 13, 2003: Some Iraqis scramble for loose Iraqi currency in the road as looters surround the central bank in Baghdad. The country is moving toward some level of stability. But it came only after years that pushed Iraq perilously close to civil war between the Sunnis who lost power after Saddam's fall and the majority Shiites who took control of the aftermath. The tallies: more than 4,350 U.S. soldiers dead; at least 87,500 Iraqi civilians killed, according to government figures. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)<br /><br />
  • JUNE 1, 2008: Children play on a slide as the sun sets, in a park next to Tigris river in Baghdad, Iraq. The country is moving toward some level of stability. But it came only after years that pushed Iraq perilously close to civil war between the Sunnis who lost power after Saddam's fall and the majority Shiites who took control of the aftermath. The tallies: more than 4,350 U.S. soldiers dead; at least 87,500 Iraqi civilians killed, according to government figures. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)<br /><br />
  • AUG. 29, 2009: Iraqis walk past destroyed cars after a massive bomb attack in front of the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq. The country is moving toward some level of stability. But it came only after years that pushed Iraq perilously close to civil war between the Sunnis who lost power after Saddam's fall and the majority Shiites who took control of the aftermath. The tallies: more than 4,350 U.S. soldiers dead; at least 87,500 Iraqi civilians killed, according to government figures. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)<br /><br /><br /><br />
  • JULY 6, 2009: Medics attached to the U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines carry a Marine, who was overcome by heat exhaustion, to a medical evacuation helicopter in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)<br /><br /><br /><br />