Iconic images from the war in Iraq

Smoke billows from the Iraqi planning ministry in Baghdad after it was hit with a missile during the start of the Iraq War on March 20, 2003.

A U.S. marine doctor holds an Iraqi girl in central Iraq March 29, 2003. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family on Saturday after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards U.S. marines positions. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

U.S. Army Spc. Lucas Edwards, in the A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regimentpart of the 3rd Infantry Division, smells the perfume on mail sent from his wife Stephanie, in the desert near Karbala in central Iraq Saturday, March 29, 2003. As some units on the field have been ordered an operational pause for a chance to resupply, U.S.-led coalition aircraft and missile strikes continue over Iraq in operation \"Iraqi Freedom.\" (AP Photo/John Moore)

**RETRANSMITTED FOR IMPROVED QUALITY** An image from video shown during a news conference Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at Camp As Sayliyah, Central Command Center, Doha, Qatar, shows the rescue of United States soldier Jessica Lynch on Tuesday, April 1, 2003. (AP Photo/U.S. Central Command, HO)

U.S. Marines from the 3rd Batallion yell to urge infantrymen to rush across the damaged Baghdad Highway Bridge, Monday, April 7, 2003, as they move forward into the city while under fire in the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Kuni Takahashi) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **

U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged after a bombing, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 7, 2003.(AP Photo/John Moore)

A statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad April 9, 2003. U.S. troops pulled down a 20-foot (six meter) high statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad on Wednesday and Iraqis danced on it in contempt for the man who ruled them with an iron grip for 24 years. In scenes reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Iraqis earlier took a sledgehammer to the marble plinth under the statue of Saddam. Youths had placed a noose around the statue's neck and attached the rope to a U.S. armored recovery vehicle. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Family members mourn the death of three male relatives, in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, April 10, 2003. The three - a father, his teenage son, and another male relative - were shot and killed by U.S. Marines Wednesday night, April 9, after the car they were driving allegedly did not stop while passing a building occupied by U.S. Marines. The victims' relatives were waiting for their return, and did not know about the incident until relatives towed the car, containing the three bodies, to the family's home on Thursday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **

Staff Sergeant Lonnie Roberts cries at a memorial service April 16, 2003, in Baghdad for Private Gregory R. Huxley Jr., 19, of Forest Port, New York who was killed in action April 6 when the armored personnel carrier he was riding in was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. Huxley had just finished basic training five months earlier. Roberts was the squad leader and was riding in the carrier at the time of the incident,and is a member of 317 Engineer Battalion, 2nd Platoon Bravo Company. REUTERS/Dallas Morning News/David Leeson) NO MAGS NO SALES FT. WORTH OUT

(FILES): This May 1, 2003 file photo shows US President George W. Bush addressing the nation aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it sails for Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, when Bush declared major fighting over in Iraq. At noon on January 20, 2009, George W. Bush hands successor Barack Obama two unfinished wars and a worldwide economic meltdown and leaves historians the job of judging his tumultuous eight-year presidency. AFP PHOTO / Files / Stephen JAFFE (Photo credit should read STEPHEN JAFFE/AFP/Getty Images)

** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Wednesday, March 31 2004. Enraged Iraqis in this hotbed of anti-Americanism killed four foreigners Wednesday, including at least one U.S. national, took the charred bodies from a burning SUV, dragged them through the streets, and hung them from the bridge. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Apr 09, 2004; Kuwait, KUWAIT; EXCLUSIVE! 21 flag draped coffins are carefully strapped down and checked prior to being returned to the United States aboard US military transport aircraft. The soldiers were all killed in Iraq. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Tami Silicio/ZUMA Press. (©) Copyright 2004 by Tami Silicio/ZUMA Press

Kraig Bowen gives a last-minute hug to his children Katelyn and Kaleb before he left for Fort Hood, Texas, with the rest of the 199th Support Battalion of the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Enhanced Separate Brigade on Thursday afternoon, April 29, 2004, in St. Martinville, La. After training in Iraq, the guard members will head to Iraq. (AP Photo/The Daily Advertiser, John Rowland)

NA/PHOTOS Photo source: undisclosed Location: Outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq Caption: A naked detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison is tethered by a leash to prison guard Army Pvt Lynndie England in these undated photos. Relatives positively identified England from this photo. These photos were cropped from the waist down for publication purposes. **MANDATORY PHOTO CREDIT TO THE WASHINGTON POST**INTERNET OUT*** .

**REMOVES WITHHOLD ON THE PHOTO AND ADDS PHOTOGRAPHER BYLINE** Picture released by the U.S. Army Tuesday, May 3, 2005 shows a U.S. Army soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul, 360 km (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 2, 2005. 15 Iraqis were wounded in the combined suicide bomb attack. (AP Photo/Michael Yon via U.S. Army)

One of the two daughters of Jalil Shaalan, a security guard at a local school, reacts after her father was gunned down in front of them outside of the school compound by unknown shooters in the Amarayah district of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 21, 2005. According to the Associated Press's count, more than 1,600 people have been killed in an increasing level of violence since April 28, when al-Jaafari announced his Shiite-led government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Cyndi Quinton, far right, wife of U.S. Army Spc. Bryan Quinton, 24, cries during her husband's graveside service at Green Hill Cemetery in Sapulpa, Okla., Wednesday, May 17, 2006. Quinton and another soldier were killed May 4 in Iraq when a roadside bomb went off near their military vehicle in Baghdad. He served with the 5th Engineer Battalion, 1st Engineer Brigade, out of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (AP Photo/Brandi Simons)

ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 27: Mary McHugh mourns her dead fiance Sgt. James Regan at \"Section 60\" of the Arlington National Cemetery May 27, 2007. Regan, an American Special Forces soldier, was killed by an IED explosion in Iraq in February of this year, and this was the first time McHugh had visited the grave since the funeral. Section 60, the newest portion of the vast national cemetery on the outskirts of Washington D.C, contains hundreds of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Family members of slain American soldiers have flown in from across the country for Memorial Day. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Mary McHugh

PFC Pete Morris (right) holds his 4-month-old daughter Gabrielle Morris sits next to his wife Erin Morris (left) while waiting for his brigade to deploy to Iraq for a a year Tuesday January 16, 2007 at Fort Stewart, Ga. This is Morris's first deployment. For many of the soldier of the brigade this is the third tour of duty in Iraq since the division lead the push into Baghdad in 2003.