The Iraq War, Ten Years Later
The Takeaway is marking the ten year anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. The individuals who were touched by the war, through fighting, covering it or losing someone in it, carry the war with them for the rest of their lives.
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Mar 19, 2013Ali Allawi is Iraq's former Minister of Trade, Minister of Defense, Minister of Finance, and author of: "The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace." He lives and wor...
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Ten Years After Iraq Invasion, A Refugee Reflects
Mar 19, 2013More than 50 people were killed and roughly 200 wounded from a suicide bombing in Baghdad Tuesday. The attack falls on the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Iraqi ref... -
What Bob Woodruff Carries With Him 10 Years After Invasion of Iraq
Mar 18, 2013In 2006, ABC News reporter Bob Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury while reporting on the Iraq War. Ten years after the invasion, he talks about what he carries with him from t... -
Fire and Forget: New Stories for New Wars
Mar 15, 2013The legacy of war literature is a rich one. When Matt Gallagher returned from the Iraq War, he discovered he needed to write his own stories. He is co-editor of "Fire and Forget," a... -
Unwilling Witness: The Terror of Reporting on Your Own Country
Mar 14, 2013Like many Iraqis, Abdulrazzaq Al-Saiedi initially welcomed the invasion that brought an end to Saddam Hussein’s brutal dictatorship. But he wasn't prepared for what happened next.
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Looking Forward When Your Country Is Sliding Back
Mar 14, 2013How do you look forward when so much of your world is sliding backward? That's the question BBC war correspondent Hugh Sykes asked Iraqis as they watched their country crumble around ... -
Iraq Ten Years Later: Soldiers on the Ground Share Their Stories
Mar 13, 2013Ten years after the American invasion of Iraq began, the BBC's Hugh Sykes files a report about how American soldiers handle the responsibilities, contradictions, and challenges of occ... -
An Iraq War Veteran Finds an Outlet in Poetry
Mar 12, 2013Hugh Martin served for nearly a year with the Ohio National Guard in the Iraqi town of Jalala. He is the author of a new book of poetry about his experiences called "The Stick Soldiers."
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Your Stories: Lessons from the Iraq War
Mar 12, 2013Ten years ago this month, the US invaded Iraq, launching the Iraq War. Throughout the week, we're looking at lessons from the war from scholars, soldiers, translators — and you.