No doubt that 9-11, like Pearl Harbor, needed to be avenged, but Bush had another agenda.

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.

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

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A sad stroll down memory lane... [Report this comment] Posted by: pelican beak on Mar 19, 2009 12:52 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ... ThinkProgress' timeline. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] A million+ Iraqis have died... [Report this comment] Posted by: Ghoulman on Mar 19, 2009 12:56 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ... directly from the US Occupation. The 100,000 number is about four years old. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: A million+ Iraqis have died... Posted by: lively56 THE IRAQ INVASION WAS NEVER REPORTED [Report this comment] Posted by: VZEQICVA on Mar 19, 2009 3:23 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] There was minimum coverage for a short time and then almost none at all. Anyone curious about what was going on and wondering about numbers of dead and other annoying things had to look beyond standard news coverage. It continues to be a disgrace. The entire Bush Administration and everything that happened during that 8 years is what ruined news and newspapers. They were inept and incompetent. Now they are paying the price, but so are the rest of us. ANNA [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] ANY DOUBT ERASED [Report this comment] Posted by: Windwhistler on Mar 20, 2009 4:17 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] If there is any person left who had any doubt that Americans are brain washed this should remove it. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] War... [Report this comment] Posted by: frank69 on Mar 20, 2009 9:29 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] "I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." -- William Tecumseh Sherman In an address at a military academy, 15 years after the end of the Civil War. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Chicken hawks... [Report this comment] Posted by: frank69 on Mar 20, 2009 9:37 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Ashcroft, Paulson, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Savage, both Clintons, Schumer, Gingrich, George Will, and the rest of the "Tough Guys." Chicken hawks always TALK tough, but NEVER walk the walk! When it was their turn, somehow they all avoided going to war. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] No doubt that 9-11, like Pearl Harbor, needed to be avenged, but Bush had another agenda. [Report this comment] Posted by: JohnHKennedy Denver CO on Mar 22, 2009 10:05 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] There was no doubt that 9-11, like Pearl Harbor, needed to be avenged, but Bush had another agenda. no doubt that 9-11, like Pearl Harbor, needed to be avenged, but Bush had another agenda.Bush, Cheney, and appointees lied about WMD, aluminum tubes, and Niger Uranium to con Congressno doubt that 9-11, like Pearl Harbor, needed to be avenged, but Bush had another agenda. into approving an invasion of Iraq, a country that did not have anything to do with 9-11. In WW-II, in 4 years, FDR put 13,000,000 men in the fight, beat 3 dictatorships, their leaders dead at the end. After 7 years of War On Terror, neither Bush nor Cheney could find Osama Bin Laden, our US reputation is in the gutter, we're still at war, over 4,200 US Soldiers are dead, over 30,000 maimed for the Bush-Cheney arrogance and lies. They ordered Torture, a violation of Federal Law. If we as a people hope to force our public officials to obey our laws and our Constitution, the time is Now and the way to do it is to prosecute members of the Bush administration who violated Federal Laws, including the law against Torturing prisoners. The reason that we continue to have unnecessary wars of choice is that our Congress makes excuses for lawbreaking officials instead of impeaching or prosecuting them. Unless Obama's statement that “no one is above the law” is a lie, Obama must appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney and the appointee lawyers that advocated Torture, violated many Federal Laws, our Constitution & the Geneva Convention on Torture. Sign The Petition To Prosecute them ANGRYVoters.org . [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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