Iraq War


  1. Share your voice on the war in Iraq

  2. Display brings Iraq War home

    Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES Flowers were placed on boots that represent National Guard soldiers killed in Iraq. Activists speaking out against the Iraq War set 233 pairs of combat boots in Lindsay Park in Davenport as part of a traveling exhibit.

  3. Iraq war veteran is running for Congress

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Iraq war vet Tammy Duckworth, right, with her husband, Brian Bowlsbey, is greeted by Democratic committeewoman Joan Erannen as she collects signatures for a nominating petition in Chicago. Duckworth was released from active Army duty Wednesday and is expected to announce a Democratic congressional bid today. Duckworth, an Army major, lost her legs and injured an arm when the Blackhawk helicopter she was piloting was hit by a missile in November 2004.

  4. Clinton pledges end to war in Iraq

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  5. Senate gridlocks on Iraq war vote

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lowers his head during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007, after the Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to pass a nonbinding resolution rebuking President Bush's deployment of additional combat troops to Iraq. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., is seen behind Reid. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

  6. Iraq war vote passes House

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, accompanied by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 16, 2007, following a vote on a non-binding resolution on the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

  7. Petraeus wants '45-day period of evaluation' on troops in Iraq

    Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the status of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

  8. 9/11 did not cause Iraq war

    This Department of Defense memo from 2007 still links reserve deployment in Iraq to 9/11. Find a copy of the entire page at www.qctimes.com/multimedia.

  9. The Top 5 of 2005: 3. The Iraq War

    An Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote in the Iraqi election at a polling station in the town of Az Zubayr, in southern Iraq, Thursday Dec. 15, 2005. Elections for a 275-member National Assembly took place across Iraq on Thursday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

  10. Rumsfeld ouster opens new chapter on Iraq war

    At the White House: Donald Rumsfeld, left, stepped down as defense secretary Wednesday. President Bush, right, nominated Robert Gates to replace Rumsfeld.

  11. Ivins: Despair cannot be an option in Iraq War

    Molly Ivins

  12. War in Iraq enters 4th year

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Insurgent actions continue to plague the streets of Iraq, almost three years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime. On Friday, a roadside bomb set this U.S. Army Abrams tank on fire in Baghdad.

  13. Third year of Iraq war finds little solace

    the associated press An Iraqi man molds clay ovens in his Baghdad shop. As electricity shortages remain at an all-time high in Iraq, the demand for wood-burning clay ovens has risen dramatically.

  14. Edwards questions Clinton's commitment to end Iraq war

    Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters during a meeting with local residents, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007, in New Hampton, Iowa. (AP PHOTO)

  15. Protesting the War in Iraq

    Karen Rosson of Peoria, Ill., waves at passing motorists in Peoria, Ill., on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 as she holds a sign protesting the war in Iraq (AP Photo/Peoria Journal Star/Ron Johnson)

  16. iPods for all: Other ways to spend Iraq war's $1 trillion

    Author Rob Simpson is shown in his Knoxville, Tenn., office on Sept. 18, 2008. Simpson spent a year researching and writing "What We Could Have Done With the Money" about other ways to spend the $1 trillion spent on the war in Iraq; an iPod for everyone on the planet, free college education for every high school student in America, etc. (AP PHOTO)

  17. Soldiers give students a glimpse of Iraq war

    Students in Christina Shelton's history class were given army-green tee-shirts, GI-like dog tags and plastic wrist bands promoting the 'Take a Veteran to School Day' at Moline High School Thursday.

  18. Protesters mark sixth year of Iraq war

    Nancy Flaherty of Rock Island protests the Iraq war with fellow Progressive Action for the Common Good members Thursday at 53rd Street and Corporate Drive in Davenport. (Steven Mantilla/QUAD-CITY TIMES)

  19. Film on Iraq takes close-up look at war

    CONTRIBUTED PHOTO U.S. soldiers play soccer with children in Balad, Iraq.

  20. To cut-and-run, declare Iraq a civil war

    Patrick Buchanan

  21. Daughter of Iraq war victim is named queen of area fair

    THE MUSCATINE JOURNAL Nathan Smith, left, stands next to his sister, Savannah Leigh Smith, and his mother, Oliva Smith, after Savannah was crowned Muscatine County Fair Queen on Wednesday night.

  22. Cheney greets troops as part of intensified offensive on Iraq war

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Vice President Dick Cheney, at Fort Drum, N.Y., said Tuesday that pulling out of Iraq would be “unwise in the extreme.”

  23. Spirited anti-war rally one of largest of Iraq conflict

    The Associated Press Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, center, shares a moment Saturday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson during an anti-war protest march.

  24. Iraq war death toll hits 4,000

    The casket team carries the casket to the grave site during the funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for Marine Cpl. Patrick Nixon on April 17, 2003. Nixon was killed in combat in Nasiriyah, Iraq. The number of American service members killed in Iraq has reached 4,000, according to The Associated Press. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO FROM GANNETT NEWS SERVICE)