Photo: #In a 4-minute television address on March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush announced that the U.S. military struck at "targets of opportunity" in Iraq.
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In a 4-minute television address on March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush announced that the U.S. military struck at "targets of opportunity" in Iraq. (Photo by Getty Images)

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War in Iraq

Iraq war enters its fifth year

Broadcast: Midday, 03/19/2007, 11:06 a.m.

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On March 19, 2003, President Bush announced that he had begun "military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." Four years later America remains in Iraq, and the country is divided over how to proceed.

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  • Barbara Bodine: Fellow with the Persian Gulf Initiative at MIT's Center for International Studies. Bodine was U.S. ambassador to Yemen from 1997-2001, and also worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003.

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