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Nation's Major Newspapers Ignore Iraq War's Sixth Anniversary

Posted by Ben Armbruster, Think Progress at 12:31 PM on March 19, 2009.


Today marks six years since former President Bush launched the invasion of Iraq.
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Today marks six years since former President Bush launched the invasion of Iraq -- a preventive war of choice based on “intelligence fixed around the policy.” Since that time, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent, over 4,000 U.S. servicemen and women and hundreds more from coalition countries have died (tens of thousands more physically and mentally wounded), nearly 100,000 (or more) Iraqi civilians have parished and nearly 5 million have been displaced. Yet the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other major American newspapers are ignoring the anniversary today. Only USA Today printed a story noting the anniversary of the invasion. Today’s Progress Report has more on the good, the bad, and the ugly of developments surrounding the Iraq war over the last year.

Update: Check out ThinkProgress's updated timeline of the Iraq war.

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Benjamin J. Armbruster is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.


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