Five years on...

And these are the conflicting pictures of what $12 billion a month, hundreds of thousands dead, and the worst strategic disaster in 150 years will get you:

March 17, 2008, the man who once declared immediate victory.
(AFP/Paul J. Richards)



March 3, 2008, same place, observe the real victor.
REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ)