President Bush Addresses the Nation - March 19, 2003

My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military...

if UN inspectors do not find weapons in Iraq the US will attack

He had already made up his mind to go to war and nothing was going to stop him.

not everybody can get to the big demonstrations

Appears to be small town local people demonstrating today to mark the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

invaded invader invaders invading invasion

An invasion is when an army enters a country by force. The soldiers of an invading army are called "invaders".

The State of the Union Address on Weapons of Mass Destruction

* 25,000 liters of anthrax; enough doses to kill several million people * 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin; enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure  * 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent  In such quantities, these chemical...

I could not dig I dared not rob

Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue and I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among mine angry and defrauded young?

third anniversary demonstrations

Thousands of protesters around the planet joined demonstrations on Saturday, March 18, 2006. The early hours of March 20, 2003, was when the invasion of Iraq began.

looking back at the numbers of the second anniversary

Whatever these numbers were on the second anniversary, they will be bigger numbers on the the third anniversary  (March 19/20, 2006).

troops waiting for the order

This photograph was taken late on March 19, 2003. The invasion began during the early hours of March 20, 2003. Within one hour of this happening, their Commander-in-Chief in Washington announced that he had given the order.