A U.S. soldier takes a break under a shade during a joint patrol with Iraqi soldiers in Baquba June 29, 2007. A roadside bomb killed five U.S. soldiers on patrol in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Friday, bringing this month's death toll for American forces in Iraq to 100. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) June 30, 2007

Iraqi girls eye a US soldier as his team searches their Baghdad home. Iraq's conflict is exacting an immense and largely unnoticed psychological toll on children and youth that will have long-term consequences. (Photo: Chris Hondros / Getty Images) June 28, 2007

U.S. soldiers walk on a street during a night mission in Baqouba, early June 27, 2007. Residents complain that they aren't safe from the Americans on the street or even in their own homes. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) June 27, 2007

In this image released by the US Army, an Iraqi child accompanies a soldier with B Company, 4-9 Infantry Regiment, as the soldier takes a break after an air assault into a village in the outskirts of Baqouba Tuesday,June 19, 2007. Soldiers of 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team are assisting Soldiers of 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team in the clearing of Baqouba, a major operation known as 'Arrowhead Ripper,' by isolating Baqouba right outside the city limits, to prevent insurgents from getting in, or out, of the city. Both Stryker brigades are with the 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/SSgt. Antonieta Rico, US Army, HO) June 25, 2007

U..S. military officer Colonel Steve Townsend (R), commander of the 3rd Stryker Brigade, and a fellow soldier interrogate local citizens during an operation called Arrowhead Ripper in Baqouba June 24, 2007. U.S. troops hoping to directly confront al Qaeda militants in a major offensive in the Iraqi city of Baquba instead found themselves "swimming through a minefield", a senior officer said on Sunday. REUTERS/Alister Bull) June 24, 2007

US Marines prepare for a night patrol in Fallujah, , May 2007. US forces could be needed in Iraq for a decade to battle insurgents, Petraeus said Sunday, while vowing a "forthright" review in September on whether a troop surge is working. (AFP/File/Roslan Rahman) June 18, 2007

A U.S. soldier shields himself from dust as Blackhawk helicopters take off south of Baghdad, March 5, 2007. Global military spending rose 3.5 percent last year to $1.2 trillion as U.S. costs for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan mounted, a European research body said on Monday in an annual study. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters) June 12, 2007

U.S. army soldiers and marines take part in a Change of Command ceremony in the heavily airconditioned Green Zone in Baghdad June 10, 2007. Top U.S. commander in Iraq General David H. Petraeus hosted a ceremony in which Lieutenant-General Martin E. Dempsey relinquished command to Lieutenant-General James M. Dubik, including his responsibilities as commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command. (REUTERS/Wathiq Khuzaie/Pool) June 10, 2007

Close Shave: U.S. Army Spc. Angelo Moreno, a gunner with 1st Platoon, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, shaves outside Joint Security Station Luzon in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, May 27, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. L.B. Edgar) June 7, 2007

Pfc. Ryan Edmond and his fellow soldiers from Company A, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division clearing a house in hopes of finding three of their missing comrades abducted by al-Qaeda in Al-Thobat, near Mahmudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, 18 May 2007. An Al-Qaeda front group said in a video released on Monday that it had killed the three US soldiers whom it captured last month in Iraq. (AFP/US Army-HO/File/Sgt Tierney Nowland) June 5, 2007

U.S. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Angel Barcenas (R) of Los Angeles, California, shakes hands with a soldier at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington June 1, 2007. Barcenas lost his legs to an improvised explosive device (IED) while on foot patrol in Iraq in July 2006. (REUTERS/Jason Reed) June 2, 2007

A U.S. Army soldier from Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment rests during a search for weapons and clues in the capture of two American soldiers in Quarghuli village near Youssifiyah, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, May 29, 2007. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo) May 31, 2007

A U.S. soldier takes the picture of a fellow soldier with Iraqi children during a visit to a school in Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad May 27, 2007. (REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammad) May 29, 2007

Volunteers set up the Arlington West display of war memorial crosses for US military personnel killed in Iraq, on Santa Monica Beach in California. Eight more American soldiers have been killed fighting in Iraq, the military reported on the eve of the war-weary nation's annual Memorial Day commemoration of its war dead.(AFP/Getty Images/David McNew) May 27, 2007

A soldier from Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment walks past burning reeds razed to prevent insurgents from seeking cover in Quarghuli village near Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 26, 2007, U.S. troops continue to confiscate and destroy property of the "free" Iraqis. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo) May 26, 2007

The American flag stands in a set of combat boots placed in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois as part of the Eyes Wide Open: An Exhibition on the Human Cost of the Iraq War. (AFP/Jeff Haynes) May 25, 2007

US Marine Corps Sgt. Steve Shephard lowers his head during the dedication of the Corporal Jordan C. Pierson Memorial Park in Milford, Connecticut, May 22, 2007. Pierson, who played in the park as a child, was killed last August in Iraq. Democratic leaders have decided to drop the timeline for withdrawing US forces from Iraq from the war funding bill. The White House indicates that it may boost troops levels to 200,000 by the end of the year. (Photo: Whitney Kidder-Alvarez / AP) May 23, 2007

An injured US Marine (R) gets help after straining his leg during a patrol in Fallujah, west of Baghdad 21 May. Democratic congressional leaders were Monday close to dropping their troop withdrawal timelines from an Iraq war budget, in a move which could ease a standoff with President George W. Bush(AFP/Roslan Rahman) May 22, 2007

Two Iraqi men are forced to face the wall while their house is searched in Latifiyah, about 20 kilometers south of Baghdad, Saturday , May 19, 2007. This is the face of "freedom" that the U.S. has brought to Iraq. Thousands of U.S. soldiers continue their search for three missing comrades, more than a week after they were abducted. (AP Photo/Kim Gamel) May 21, 2007

U.S. soldiers carry a wounded soldier, following a blast on a road between Fallujah and Baghdad, at a military base in Abu Ghraib May 19, 2007. A U.S. soldier died following the roadside bomb attack south of Baghdad. Five other soldiers including two Iraqis were also wounded. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) May 20, 2007

Having it the Their Way: Soldiers with the 1st Cavalry Division from Texas eat at Burger King at Taji U.S. Air Force Base. Located about 25 miles northwest of Baghdad., Camp Taji also has a Subway, a Pizza Hut, the largest PX in Iraq, and multiple gyms and an olympic-size swimming pool. It is home to more than 5,000 soldiers. ( ) May 18, 2007

US Marines rush to give support to the Iraqi police after being fired upon by an insurgents' sniper at the north east of the restive city of Fallujah, 15 May 2007.Three years after major operations almost destroyed the city, insurgents remain in control of some areas. (AFP/Roslan Rahman) May 17, 2007

"Thanks for the tea, now let me tie you up." A man stands handcuffed in his kitchen as soldiers from Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division in Mosul, Thursday May 3, 2007. Such abuses and injury of Iraqis by foreign troops are common in today's "free Iraq".(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) May 16, 2007

An undated handout picture of US soldier Colby Buzzell, whose graphic account of his deployment in Iraq, detailing the firefights and frustrations of frontline life, has won a prize for books based on blogs. His site, along with others are being turned off by the Defense department in an ongoing effort to control the media about the war in Iraq. (AFP/HO) May 15, 2007

Iraqi soldiers conduct a joint search mission with US troops near Yusifiya, 12 May 2007. About 4,000 US soldiers scoured Iraqi insurgent territory for three comrades as Al-Qaeda claimed it had captured the missing troops in a deadly pre-dawn ambush.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ahmed) May 13, 2007

US soldiers take position during a patrol in Baghdad, 07 May 2007. The showdown between US President George W. Bush and lawmakers over Iraq is headeding to the Senate, after the House of Representatives voted to fund the war in segments of just a few months.(AFP/US Army/File/Sgt Jeffery Alexander) May 11, 2007

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (C) meets General David Petraeus (R), commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad May 9, 2007. Cheney arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday on an unannounced visit, at a time when pressure from Washington is growing on the Iraqi government to meet benchmarks aimed at healing sectarian strife. (REUTERS/Gerald Herbert/Pool) May 9, 2007

Iraqi children gather around a U.S. soldier in Sadr City Shiite district of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 6, 2007 while soldierrs raid their homes. U.S. and Iraqi forces raided Sadr City, bombing four houses and wounding six civilians, Iraqi police said. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali) May 6, 2007

Former Army Sgt. John Bruhns appears in a Moveon.com anti-war ad directed by Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone. (REUTERS/Phil McCarten) May 5, 2007

A U.S. soldier kicks a ball while playing with Iraqi kids in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 3, 2007 on a street that no longer is open to traffic. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) May 3, 2007

An elderly Iraqi woman (one of the "free Iraqis") gets warm next to a heater as a US soldier of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment raids her home during a large operation launched in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 23 April 2007 (AFP/Mauricio Lima) April 30, 2007

A U.S. soldier mans a check point in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 26, 2007. Former CIA director George Tenet says in a new book that there was no serious debate within the US administration ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) April 28, 2007

An Iraqi driver looks at the U.S. soldiers at a fuel station in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 27, 2007. The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate adopted House-passed legislation calling for U.S. troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1. U.S. President George W. Bush pledged to veto the measure, and neither body passed the measure with enough votes to override a veto. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) April 27, 2007

The sun sets on Camp Striker in Baghdad, Iraq Tues., April 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) April 24, 2007

A US soldier smokes a cigarette as he patrols an area at Baghdad's al-Mansur district. Democratic lawmakers are poised this week to send Iraq war funding legislation to US President George W. Bush, who has vowed to veto the measure if it includes a withdrawal timetable. (AFP/Wisam Sami) April 22, 2007

A US soldier patrols a street in Baghdad's Sadr City. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili) April 21, 2007

A U.S. Army soldier from 1st Cavalry Division fills his Bradley Fighting Vehicle with oil on Forward Operating Base Warhorse, Iraq, March 29, 2007, before heading out on patrol. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall) April 17, 2007

A U.S. soldier takes pictures of the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad April 15, 2007. The attack which targeted a police patrol killed five people and wounded 10 others, police said. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) April 15, 2007

A U.S. soldier stands guard as the helicopter of a U.S. Congress delegation prepares to leave after the delegation's visit to an oil refinery in Baiji, 112 miles north of Baghdad, April 12, 2007. REUTERS/Nuhad Hussin) April 13, 2007

In this image released by the US Army, soldiers with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division sing hymns during a sunrise service at Forward Operating Base Warhorse in Baqouba, Iraq, on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2007(AP Photo/Pfc. Ben Fox, US Army) April 8, 2007

A photograph and dogtags of 20-year-old U.S. Marine Alexander Arredondo, killed in Najaf, Iraq on August 25, 2004, lay attached to a cross at a symbolic cemetery at "Camp Casey" near the ranch of U.S. President George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas, April 6, 2007. Dozens of crosses representing U.S. troops that have died in Iraq and Afghanistan have been set up by relatives of those killed, part of a protest against the war which began in August 2005 by peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in Iraq. (REUTERS/Jason Reed ) April 7, 2007

Specialists Brandon Koontz (L) from Ft Worth, Texas and Alvin Tapia from Torrance, California with the U.S. Army's 3-2 Stryker Brigade keep watch on a street during a patrol in Baghdad April 7, 2007. REUTERS/Bob Strong) April 7, 2007

A US flag is wrapped around the labeled coffin containing U.S. Army soldier Jason Nunez, shortly before his funeral, at the military cemetery in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Of the 82nd Airborne Division, Nunez was killed last week along with three fellow soldiers in a suicidal bomb attack against his convoy near Baqubah. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) April 6, 2007

U.S. Army soldiers evacuate soldiers wounded during a U.S. military operation against insurgents in Qubbah, Iraq, March 24, 2007. Army Lt. Col. Donald Robinson says the injuries caused by Iraq's dreaded improvised explosive devices are unlike anything seen in combat before, posing constant challenges for army field surgery specialists in a conflict that has been dubbed the "Superbowl of Trauma." (REUTERS/Staff Sgt. JoAnn S. Makinano/U.S.) April 4, 2007

A U.S. soldier from the 3-2 Stryker Brigade kicks the front gate of a house during a search for criminals and weapons in Baghdad's Mansour district April 3, 2007. REUTERS/Bob Strong) April 3, 2007

Marine Maj. Jim Lively, left, studies a map and radios fellow American units during a gunfight on Tuesday, March 27, 2007, in Ramadi. The operation began with a house-to-house sweep through what American forces said was one of this city's last insurgent strongholds. It ended with rooftop gunfights, airstrikes and dead guerrillas on the streets. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman) March 31, 2007

U.S. soldiers of Delta company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment and their Iraqi counterparts conduct house-to-house raids during a joint operationin Baghdad's northwest Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliya March 30, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 30, 2007

U.S. Army Sgt. Chad Rozanski, 21, injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq, attends a job fair for wounded soldiers at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) March 28, 2007

Spc. James Johnson, who was injured in Iraq, center, visits a booth during a job fair at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) March 27, 2007

US soldiers look at pictures on their laptop at their company's combat outpost nicknamed "The Swamp" in the al-Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad. The US Senate was to take up binding legislation Monday to withdraw US troops from Iraq within one year -- setting up a showdown with President George W. Bush, who has vowed a veto.(AFP/David Furst) March 26, 2007

An Iraqi offers tea to Iraqi soldiers as they patrol Baghdad's al-Karrada neighborhood. Two suicide bombings and other attacks have killed 47 people in Iraq, underscoring the apparent powerlessness of officials to contain the raging insurgency in the war-torn country.(AFP/Ali Yussef) March 24, 2007

Residents watch U.S. soldiers patrolling a road in Baghdad March 21, 2007. U.S. forces have released a senior aide to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who had been held for more than a year, on the orders of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister's office said on Wednesday. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters) March 22, 2007

Iraq war veteran Ken Sargent brushes his teeth at home in Camp Pendleton, March 14, 2007. On August 5, 2004, a bullet erased most of Sargent's vision and blew two inches off the left side of his brain, destroying parts of his memory and mental function. (Mike Blake/Reuters) March 21, 2007

Reuters - Tue Mar 20, 9:08 AM ET Iraq Veterans Against the War members perform a re-enactment of a combat situation on the lawn of the Capitol after a news conference marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, March 19, 2007. (Jim Young/Reuters) March 20, 2007

U.S. soldiers of the Alpha 2-17 Field Artillery 2nd Platoon are seen through a night vision device during a night raid in a mainly Shi'ite area in southern Baghdad March 18, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 18, 2007

Activists take part in an anti-war procession from the National Cathedral to the White House in Washington. Thousands of people are expected to converge on the center of the US capital and march on the Pentagon to protest the Iraq war, following the arrest of about 100 people during an anti-war vigil the night before.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm) March 17, 2007

U.S. soldiers of the Bravo 2-17 Field Artillery 2nd Platoon open fire during an exercise at a fire range inside an Iraqi army compound in Baghdad March 16, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 16, 2007

An Iraqi woman serves tea to Sgt. Andrew Simpson, 24, from York, Pa., of Alpa Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne during a visit to her home in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) March 14, 2007

US and Iraqi soldiers patrol the streets of Baghdad on March 8. US forces opened fire on an unarmed Iraqi family's car and killed a father and his two young daughters in east Baghdad.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef) March 10, 2007

A U.S. soldier walks in a shopping mall run by local Iraqis inside forward operating base Rustamayah in the south of Baghdad March 8, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 8, 2007

A U.S. soldier of the 3/61 Cavalry 2nd Infantry division brigade combat team shows his rifle to children during a patrol in the village of Alwardah, south of Baghdad, March 6, 2007. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 6, 2007

U.S. soldier Sergeant John Kriesel, who was wounded in Iraq, follows his therapist Captain Rogers before a rehabilitation session at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation center at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington in this February 9, 2007 file photo. U.S. Army Secretary Francis Harvey has resigned after reports that troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were being poorly treated at the Army's top hospital, Walter Reed Medical Center, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on March 2, 2007. (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/Files) March 4, 2007

A U.S. army 2nd Infantry Division soldier patrols central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 1, 2007. Baghdad appeared quieter Thursday, with only one person killed in a roadside bomb, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) March 1, 2007

A U.S. soldier walks past a new concrete wall at a market in the southeast of Baghdad, February 25, 2007. U.S. troops constructed a concrete wall around the market where last week two car bombs went off, killing 60 people in the worst attack since U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in the city five days ago. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) February 26, 2007

Maria Kelly, wife of Army National Guard Col. Paul Kelly, 45, holds her son John Joseph Kelly, 5, during a memorial service for her husband and two other soldiers at the Army National Guard Readiness Center in Arlington, Va., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. The memorial was held for three soldiers--Kelly; Sgt. Maj. Roger Haller, 49; and Sgt. 1st Class Floyd Lake, 43--who died in an helicopter crash in Iraq on Jan. 20. Kelly was the highest ranking National Guard member to be killed in combat in Iraq. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) February 24, 2007

Sergeant Ernesto Lozado (C) buys candy at a kiosk southeast of Baghdad February 22, 2007. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) February 23, 2007

In this photo released by the Mosteiro family, Sgt. First Class Allen Mosteiro, is shown. Mosteiro, 42, of Fort Worth, Texas, died Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds he suffered the day before when his unit came under fire during combat in Taji, the Department of Defense said Thursday, Feb. 15. Mosteiro was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. Mosteiro was married and had a 14-year-old son. (AP Photo/Mosteiro family) February 21, 2007

A US soldier shares a moment with Iraqi children during patrol at an area northeast of Baghdad, February 17, 2007. (AFP/Ali Yussef) February 18, 2007

US soldiers engage in a sustained gunfight with unidentified gunmen in Baghdad, 14 February 2007. US President George W. Bush has defended his much-criticized policies toward Iraq, Iran and North Korea, even as Congress moved toward a vote assailing his Iraq troop increase. (AFP/File/David Furst) February 15, 2007

An Iraqi man watches Army Spc. Christopher Harland, 21, from Wildmar, Calif., of C. Co., 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, second Infantry Division search his auto repair garage in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) February 12, 2007

A US soldier aims his weapon as fellow soldiers enter an Iraqi home while in the Adamiyah neighborhood of northern Baghdad.(AFP/David Furst) February 10, 2007

US soldiers carry a comrade on a stretcher after she was wounded in a mortar blast on the outskirts of Baghdad in January 2007. A new showdown looms after Republicans blocked debate in the US Senate over a resolution criticizing President George W. Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq.(AFP/File/David Furst) February 6, 2007

The court-martial of First Lt. Ehren Watada begins today in Fort Lewis, Washington. Watada has stated that the war in Iraq is illegal and that he is duty-bound as an officer under international and military conventions to refuse unlawful orders.
(Photo: thankyoult.org) February 5, 2007

A US soldier cleans his rifle on the ramp of his Strydker fighting vehicle as he waits for mission orders in Baghdad for President Bush's. "surge". (AFP/David Furst) February 3, 2007

A soldier from the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment navigates the stairs of an occupied home his platoon uses as an outpost in Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 () February 1, 2007

US soldiers hold their heads in prayer during a service held on a US Army forward operating base on the outskirts of Baghdad. Before the November US elections, President George W. Bush promised never to put US troops "in the crossfire" of Iraq's warring sectarian groups. Last week, he made clear that his new strategy would do just that.(AFP/David Furst ) January 29, 2007

US Soldiers patrol a street in Baghdad. US soldiers have been authorized to kill or capture Iranian operatives found in Iraq, however it is unclear if this applies to other clandestine operations of other countries..(AFP/File/Thibauld Malterre) January 26, 2007

A U.S. soldier greets a resident while on patrol in Mahmoudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, January 21, 2007. (REUTERS/Ibrahim Sultan) January 21, 2007

An Iraqi soldier kicks in the door during a joint US and Iraqi military raid in Baqouba, Wednesday Jan. 17, 2006 ( ) January 18, 2007

President George W. Bush (C) speaks to MLK volunteers at Cordozo High School in Washington, DC, 15 January with a caution that they may need to become "sacrifices" in an ideological struggle that could "last for years". Opposition Democrats increased pressure on Bush over plans to surge US troops in Iraq, as the president insisted in an interview that his only concern is success (AFP/File/Jim Watson) ) January 17, 2007

U.S. soldiers secure a road in Baghdad January 16, 2007. (REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz) January 16, 2007

US and Iraqi army soldiers take positions as a fire fight with insurgents broke out in Baqouba, January 14, 2007 (AP Photo) January 14, 2007

U.S. President George W. Bush walks with a soldier to lunch with troops and their families at Fort Benning, Georgia, January 11, 2007. Bush's visit comes a day after a live television address on his administration's U.S. military strategy and the situation in Iraq from White House. (REUTERS/Jason Reed) January 12, 2007

A U.S. Army soldier looks down as an Apache helicopter flies over him on the outskirts of Baqouba, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007, during a joint raid with the Iraqi army. 10 suspects were detained and terrorist material and weapons were seized in the raid. (AP Photo) ) January 05, 2007

US Army Specialist Dustin R. Donica, 22, of Spring, Texas, was killed on December 28 in Baghdad. His death brought the total of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq to 3,000 (Family/AP) January 01, 2007

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A U.S. soldier stands raids an Iraqi's home during an operation in the Al-Jamia neighborhood of Baghdad, in this May 27, 2007. President George W. Bush pleaded with Americans Thursday to give time for his troop "surge" in Iraq to work amid signs of increasing skepticism in his Republican party. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz ) June 29, 2007

A U.S. soldier carrying shoulder-fired grenades paused to wait for orders during an operation on Saturday in Baquba, Iraq. The deadliest place for US troops remains Baghdad, where 22 of 29 US soldiers were killed within a recent five-day period. (Photo: Scott Nelson / World Picture Network) June 27, 2007

In this image released by the U.S. Army, soldiers from the 5th Iraqi Army Division, run through a smoke screen as soldiers from the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., follow, Friday, June 22, 2007. This was part of Operation Arrowhead Ripper, an assault on Baqouba. (AP Photo/ Sgt. Armando Monroig, US Army, HO) June 26, 2007

A soldier with US Army's 3rd brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rests in a bombed-out hospital in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Thursday, June 21, 2007. The US military began another major campaign against Sunni insurgents Monday in the area surrounding Baqouba, the capital of Iraq, Diyala province. (AP Photo/Lauren Frayer) June 22, 2007

Capt. Bryan Spence inspects an F-16 Fighting Falcon before a combat mission May 30 at Balad Air Base, Iraq. He is an F-16 pilot with the 14th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron deployed from the 14th Fighter Squadron at Misawa Air Base, Japan. U.S. Air Force (photo by 1st Lt. Shannon Collins) June 21, 2007

U.S. soldiers of the 2nd brigade, 23rd Infantry regiment search a house during a joint U.S and Iraqi forces operation in Rasheed neighborhood in southern of Baghdad, Iraq, early Tuesday, June 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 20, 2007

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Robert B. Brown, with Combat Camera Unit, Regimental Combat Team 6, watches over the civilian firefighters at the burn pit as smoke and flames rise into the night sky behind him in Camp Fallujah, Iraq, June 11, 2007 (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Samuel D. Corum) June 19, 2007

A soldier salutes following a memorial service Thursday, June 14, 2007, for nine Fort Lewis soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at the base near Tacoma, Wash. The nine, all recently killed in combat in Iraq, include Sgt. Chadrick Domino, Cpl. Romel Catalan, Staff Sgt. Greg P. Gagarin, Sgt. James Christopher Akin, Cpl . Robert Allen Aurber, Cpl. Tyler Joseph Kritz, Sgt. Andrews J. Higgins, Pvt. Scott Alan Miller and Staff Sgt. Brian M. Long. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) June 17, 2007

Soldiers with Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, take defensive positions during a cordon and search mission for insurgents and weapons in East Rashid, Baghdad, Iraq, June 5, 2007.(AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie Corbett, US Army) June 16, 2007

A US soldier and a private security contractor pull out a wounded Iraqi from the rubble of a bridge destroyed by an apparent suicide vehicle bomber on Sunday, June 10, 2007,outside Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. An apparent suicide car bomber took aim at a U.S. convoy carrying demolition experts, collapsing a major highway overpass south of Baghdad and trapping American soldiers in the rubble. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) June 14, 2007

Soldiers from Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division detain a man they suspect is affiliated to al-Qaida in Mosul in this May 3, 2007 file photo . Al-Qaida is the group that gets routinely tagged 'Public Enemy No. 1' by the Americans. Nine out of 10 times, when it names a foe it faces, the U.S. military names the group called al-Qaida in Iraq, even though most of the insurgency is made up of Iraqis. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) June 13, 2007

An Iraqi family sits on the floor as U.S. soldiers search their house for weapons in the town of Al-Meshahda, 32 miles north of Baghdad, June 11, 2007. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) June 11, 2007

US soldiers walk past a Sunni mosque as they patrol southwest of Baghdad, 07 June. US military commanders in Iraq are turning to a new counterinsurgency strategy, which involves arming Sunni Arab groups. (AFP/File/Roslan Rahman) June 10, 2007

A typical day is "free" Iraq: US soldiers from the 1st Battalion 28th Infantry Regiment, Delta Company kick open a locked door to conduct a random check in the southwestern Bayaa neighbourhood of Baghdad. (AFP/Roslan Rahman) June 8, 2007

A hooded Iraqi policeman (L) and a US Marine stand outside an Iraqi house during a patrol in Fallujah, May 2007. (AFP/File/Roslan Rahman) June 6, 2007

Marine Corps veteran Adam Kokesh talks with reporters during a news conference in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2007. Kokesh had already received an honorable discharge from active duty before he was photographed in April wearing fatigues - with military insignia removed - during a mock patrol with other veterans protesting the Iraq war. A military panel in Kansas City, Mo., will hold a hearing Monday to decide whether he should be should be discharged from service and, if so, with what type of discharge. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) June 4, 2007

Spc. Frank Fields, right, and Staff Sgt. Brad Alexander go through rehab at the new Center for the Intrepid, a $50 million high-tech rehabilitation center designed to serve the growing number of soldiers who return from war as amputees or with severe burns, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Wednesday, March 1, 2007. Both were injured while serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) June 3, 2007

U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team patrol a village northwest of Mahmoudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, May 29, 2007. (Stringer/Reuters) May 30, 2007

A woman mourns her dead fiance at Arlington National Cemetery 27 May on the outskirts of Washington D.C. (AFP/Getty Images/John Moore) May 28, 2007

Gordon Dreher, a private contractor who broke his back driving in Iraq, has returned to Brick, New Jersey. Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone.
(Photo: Laura Pedrick / The New York Times) May 24, 2007

Spc. Marquis Jermaine McCants, 23, of San Antonio, is shown with his two daughters, Azaria McCants and Deja Martinez. McCants, an 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., died from injuries sustained when a bomb detonated during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Family Photo via U.S. Army) May 22, 2007

A U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, stands guard at an entrance of a house in a village during a search operation for three missing soldiers in Rashdimullah district in Baghdad May 18, 2007. The three soldiers went missing after a coordinated ambush on May 12, 2007 in which four other U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi army translator were killed. Picture taken May 18, 2007. (REUTERS/Stringer) May 19, 2007

A girl is searched by a soldier from Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division as they search a home for a man they suspect is affiliated to al-Qaida in Mosul, Thursday May 3, 2007. Such insults and injury of Iraqis by foreign troops are common in today's "free Iraq". (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) May 16, 2007

A picture released by the US military shows a soldier forcing open a door during a combined cordon and search with Iraqi national policemen in the Rasheed district of Baghdad, 06 May 2007. Iraqi familes typically find themselves terrorized by U.S. troops who force entry, tie up and hood the men, scare women and childen, and sometimes destroy or steal possessions, as they search homes of otherwise law-abiding citizens of the "free" Iraq. (AFP/DOD/File/Sgt. Tierney P. Nowland) May 16, 2007

U.S. soldiers secure the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad May 14, 2007. A car bomb in a parking lot killed one person and wounded four others in the central Karrada district of Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud) May 14, 2007

A soldier from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division shines a light on men as they search for members of an Al Qaida cell in the Rasheed neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Sat., May 12, 2007. No one was detained in the search. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) May 12, 2007

A demonstration held to protest the war in Iraq is held in the office of Sen.John Sununu, R-N.H., in Manchester, N.H. Wednesday May 9, 2007. Protesters from left , Nellie Grant of Tilton, N.H. and Mary Lee Sargent of Bow, N.H., speak in front of a pile of shoes protesters say were meant to represent war casualties . At far right, a member of Sununu's staff, Liz Richards Chamberlain continues to work at her desk. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter) May 10, 2007

Marine honor guard members carry the casket of US Marine Lance Cpl. Adam Loggins to the gravesite at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, May 7, 2007. Loggins was killed in Iraq, Meanwhile, "Commander" Bush feted Queen Elizabeth at the White House.
(Photo: Robin Conn / AP) May 8, 2007

soldiers give a T-shirt to a school boy in western Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 7, 2007. Soldiers distributed free T-shirts with the writing 'My dear Baghdad' to the schoolchildren while securing an Iraqi high ranking officer visiting schools. Parents and teachers complain that the U.S. seems more interested in public relations than fixing problems such as teacher pay and security. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) May 7, 2007

U.S. soldiers attend the hand-over ceremony for the new U.S. command sergeant major at Centcom's "bling bling" headquarters in the green zone. May 5, 2007. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim) May 6, 2007

U.S. soldier detain an Iraqi citizen who was attempting to excercise his "freedom of speech" as hundreds of local residents rallied against the U.S. military presence in Kamaliyah neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali) May 4, 2007

A soldier with the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division keeps watch at an observation post on the roof of the Joint Security Station in Yarmouk, western Baghdad, Tuesday, April 29, 2007. The soldier has pasted a photograph of the vista just below his weapon, so that he can check and see whether any suspicious changes have been made to security barriers and other buildings in the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Lauren Frayer) May 2, 2007

In this photo released by U.S. Army, a Soldier with Company B, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, secures the area in the the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqouba, Iraq, Friday, April 25, 2007. Soldiers of 5-20 Inf. Regt., 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, along with soldiers of the 5th Iraqi Army Division, conducted the operation to rid the neighborhood of al-Qaida operatives. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, U.S. Army) May 1, 2007

A US soldier patrols central Baghdad, 29 April 2007. American forces have fired an artillery barrage at targets in southern Baghdad, while Iraqi rescuers scoured wreckage for the victims of another deadly car bomb that left more than 70 dead.(AFP/Ali Yussef) April 29, 2007

Soldiers pass through a maze of concrete barriers at Camp Striker in Baghdad, Iraq ThursdayApril 26, 2007. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require 'an enormous commitment' over time by the United States. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) April 26, 2007

US soldiers of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment keep watch over a group of mechanics in the new "free" Iraq before questioning them after their patrol came under small-arms fire during a raid in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.(AFP/Mauricio Lima) April 23, 2007

Two soldiers in Texas, Ronnie and James, who did not want to be fully identified, are among a growing number of Army personnel who are going Absent Without Official Leave (AWOL). In 2006, the Army reported 3,196 AWOL soldiers, a number they expect will continue to rise. (Photo: Brian Harkin / The New York Times)) April 20, 2007

Pfc. Miguel A. Marcial III's brother Michael looks on as members of the Marine Corp. honor guard fold the American flag that covered his coffin during his burial service Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at Long Island National cemetery in Farmingdale, N.Y. Marcial died April 1 in Al Asad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) April 16, 2007

A US soldier patrols a popular market in Baghdad's al-Kadhimiyah district during a Friday curfew. (AFP/Ali Yussef) April 14, 2007

In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army soldier Jimmie Arnold watches a game of pool being played by some Iraqi men while Iraqi and U.S. Army soldiers search a house in Mansour, Baghdad, Tuesday, April 10, 2007. Arnold is assigned to the 3rd Platoon Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/ Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force) April 12, 2007

A U.S. Army soldier from the 3-2 Stryker Brigade kicks a door open during a raid in Baghdad April 10, 2007. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) April 11, 2007

US troops patrol a market in Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad Iraq, Thursday, April 5, 2007. U.S. and Iraqi forces attempted to enforce a curfew in anticipation of large-scale protests throughout Baghdad April 9. (AP Photo/Mahmoud al-Badri) April 9, 2007

Corporal Jason Ratliff from Detroit, Michigan with the U.S. Army's 3-2 Stryker Brigade looks through his rifle scope during a patrol in Baghdad April 7, 2007. REUTERS/Bob Strong) April 7, 2007

U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division search a palm grove for weapons caches in Baghdad April 4, 2007. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) April 5, 2007

A US soldier from Baker Company 2-12 Infantry Battalion searches through an artist's studio during a patrol through the streets of the predominantly Sunni al-Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad, March 2007. Some 30,000 additional US troops sent as reinforcements to Iraq will remain in the war-torn country until at least the end of August, a US Defense Department spokesman said Monday.(AFP/File/David Furst) April 4, 2007

A US soldier guards an arrested man after a gunfight in central Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 29, 2007. Seven gunmen were killed and 14 were arrested in the firefight. (AP Photo/Talal M. al-Dean) April 2, 2007

An Iraqi child looks at a US soldier patrolling an area behind Baghdad's Sunni stronghold of Haifa street. The March death toll in Iraq rose 15 percent with more than 2,000 Iraqis killed, an official said on Sunday, as insurgents and sectarian militias continue to defy a military crackdown in Baghdad.(AFP/Patrick Baz) April 1, 2007

A High School Sophomore when the Iraq war began - The casket of US Army Pfc. John Landry Jr., 20, passes by students from Lowell Catholic High School on its way to a cemetery in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Landry, a 2005 graduate of the school, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on March 17. (Brian Snyder / Reuters) March 29, 2007

U.S. soldiers from Delta company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment relax in their joint security station, in an Iraqi home they have commandeered, in Baghdad's northwest Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliya March 27, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 28, 2007

A U.S. soldier interrupts class during a security check inside a school in Baghdad's northwest Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah March 25, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch ) March 27, 2007

US soldiers line up for dinner at their combat outpost "The Swamp" in the al-Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad. (AFP/David Furst) March 26, 2007

US soldiers from Gator Company 2-12 Infantry Battalion, 24 March. US Vice President Dick Cheney insists that an early withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would not be allowed, even if Congress invokes its Constitutional war authority. (AFP/File/David Furst) March 25, 2007

US soldiers take cover after being engaged by unknown gunmen while on patrol in southern Baghdad, 22 March. Democratic lawmakers will push for a deadline for withdrawing US troops from Iraq in a vote that links funds for the war to a pullout by mid-2008. (AFP/David Furst) March 23, 2007

People walk by coffins representing nine U.S. troops who were killed in Iraq at the Arlington West Iraq war memorial display on the beach next to the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Calif., Saturday, May 27, 2006. In Santa Monica, Santa Barbara and the San Francisco suburb of Lafayette, the Iraq death toll of U.S. soldiers is measured with thousands of white crosses. (AP Photo/Stefano Paltera) March 23, 2007

U.S. soldiers of the 1st Platoon Alpha company 2nd Battalion 12th Cavalry Regiment arrive at a police station in Baghdad's Al-Ghazaliyah neighbourhood March 19, 2007. U.S. soldiers and the Iraqi National police unit came under the attack of unidentified gunmen and responded by killing two of the gunmen, an Iraqi National police officer said. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 19, 2007

US soldiers bow their heads in front of a memorial to a comrade at their forward operating base in southern Baghdad. Four years after the invasion of Iraq, US commanders continue hard fighting and more casualties lie ahead, they warn.(AFP/David Furst) March 18, 2007

An Iraqi youth answers questions as US occupation soldiers from Baker Company 2-12 Infantry Battalion search his family's home without permission in the al-Dora district of Baghdad on March 14, 2007. (AFP/David Furst) March 15, 2007

Iraqi citizens plead with foreign occupation soldiers from U.S. 2nd Platoon Charlie Troop, 3rd Squadron of the 61st Cavalry Regiment not to destroy their belongings. They are forced at gunpoint to get out of their own home while the foreigners search it. ( ) March 15, 2007

U.S. soldiers work out in a gym inside the forward operating base Rustamayah in Baghdad March 14, 2007. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch) March 14, 2007

A US soldier of the 3rd platoon, Alpha company, 1-505 battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division patrols during a house search in the village of Nowfal, just outside Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Saturday, March 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) March 11, 2007

A US Soldier of the 6-9 squadron, 3rd brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, paints over a graffiti showing a man firing rocket towards a tank, on a wall of a house in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Wednesday, March 7, 2007, during a routine patrol. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) March 7, 2007

U.S. soldiers play with a ball at a police station which is part of the GSS (General Security System) in the southeast of Baghdad February 28, 2007. U.S. commanders are moving troops from the relative safety of their sprawling bases and stationing them in small outposts in Baghdad's most violent districts in a pivotal tactical shift. The effort, one of the main components of a Baghdad security plan seen as the last chance to avert all-out civil war, aims to break the militants' grip on neighbourhoods by expanding troop presence and building on local intelligence. Picture taken February 28, 2007. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) March 5, 2007

An Iraqi soldier (L) holds a machine gun beside a U.S. soldier aboard an Iraqi Air Force's new Huey II helicopter in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad March 3, 2007. The helicopter is among the 16 donated to Iraq by Jordan and refitted and upgraded in the United States at a cost of $3.5 million each. The first five were delivered to the Iraqi Air Force in February. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) March 3, 2007

US soldiers carry out a raid in Baghdad, 1 March. A roadside bomb killed two US soldiers and an interpreter as they patrolled Baghdad, the military has said.(AFP/Ali Yussef) March 2, 2007

An Iraqi woman reacts as Iraqi soldiers search her home, in the southeast of Baghdad, February 28, 2007. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) February 28, 2007

In this photo released by the U.S. Army, Pfc. Travis W. Buford, 23, of Galveston, Texas, is shown. Pfc. Buford was one of three Fort Carson, Colo., soldiers who died Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, of injuries suffered a day earlier when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Iraq, military officials said Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/U.S. Army) February 27, 2007

Protesters stand in Trafalgar Square after the 'No Trident, Troops Out of Iraq' demonstration in London February 24, 2007. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor) February 25, 2007

U.S. Army Pfc. James Murphy, 23, from St. Peter, Mo., of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, plays chess by the light on his weapon at Camp Taji in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007. The soldier is part of a surge of US troops brought to Baghdad as part of a plan to bring security to the city. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) February 22, 2007

A U.S. soldier looks at the devastation after a car bomb explosion at a Baghdad market Feb. 18. Two bombs tore through the busy shopping area, killing more than 60 Iraqis. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) February 19, 2007

U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion-504th Parachute Infantry Regiment guard the construction of new checkpoints during a night operation southeast of Baghdad February 13, 2007. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) February 13, 2007

A U.S. soldier and his tattooed buddy exercises at the gym at Camp Loyalty in Baghdad February 11, 2007. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) February 11, 2007

Unidentified soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division depart for Iraq from Craig Gym at Fort Riley, Kan., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007. They are part of the 21,500 solder increase sought by President Bush to escalate the war. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) February 9, 2007

US soldiers from the 2-325 82nd Airborne Division move their equipment into a combat outpost set up in the restive Adhamiyah neighborhood of northern Baghdad.(AFP/David Furst) February 8, 2007

US soldiers from the 1/14 Cavalry division play dice beside their barracks during a day of rest on their forward operating base located on the outskirts of Baghdad.(AFP/David Furst) February 4, 2007

An Iraqi family stands outside their home as soldiers from Delta Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment conduct a predawn search near Youssifiyah, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007. Such raids make a mockery of Iraqi "sovereignty". (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) February 3, 2007

A British military helicopter flies overhead as US Army soldiers from the 5-20 Infantry Division stand beside their Stryker armored vehicles (not seen), in central Baghdad, 02 February 2007.(AFP/File/David Furst) February 2, 2007

US soldiers sit in the hatch of a Stryker fighting vehicle as it patrols through the Adhamiyah neighborhood in northern Baghdad, 30 January 2007. (AFP/File/David Furst) January 31, 2007

Members of the Veterans for Peace gathered for an antiwar rally Thursday on Capitol Hill. A major antiwar march is planned this weekend.(NY Times, Doug Milles) January 27, 2007

U.S. soldiers enter a grocery store while on patrol in Baghdad, January 24, 2007. (Erik de Castro/Reuters) January 25, 2007

A US soldier treats a wounded man at the site of a truck bomb in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, 23 January 2007. (AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim) January 24, 2007

This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Spc. Collin R. Schockmel. Schockmel, from Richwood, Texas, died Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007, after his unit was attacked with grenades in Ramadi, Iraq, the Defense Department said Friday. Schockmel was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Carson. (AP Photo/U.S. Army) January 20, 2007

Pfc. Pete Morris holds his 4-month-old daughter, Gabrielle, as his wife Erin rests her head on his shoulder. The Morris family is waiting for his brigade to deploy to Iraq for a year at Fort Stewart, Georgia. This is his first deployment, but for many in his brigade this is the third tour of duty in Iraq.
(Photo: Stephen Morton / World Picture News) January 19, 2007

US soldiers stand with Iraqi children in Safwan, an Iraq-Kuwait border town Monday Jan. 15, 2007. It is expected that most of the additional 21,500 US troops will soon cross into Iraq from Kuwait. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) January 15, 2007

Thousands of crosses stand on a hillside memorial in honor of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war, in Lafayette, California, January 12, 2007. (REUTERS/Kimberly White) January 13, 2007

This photo released by the US Department of Defence shows US Army Staff Sgt. Chance Seidell walking behind a Stryker vehicle during in Baghdad, December 2006. Currently a major operation is being conducted in the Haifa (AFP/DOD/File/Sgt. Tierney Nowland) January 10, 2007

Gideon Fry, 7, son of Marine John D Frey of Lorena, TX who was killed near Fallujah on March 8, 2006. Photo Jan. 1, 2007 (Family/AP) January 03, 2007

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