Mission Accomplished?

Five years ago today, George W. Bush pulled his tailhook landing stunt on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and declared: "Mission Accomplished!"



Five years later...

More than 4,000 U.S. troops have lost their lives in Iraq, along with more than 300 from the so-called "coalition of the willing".

Almost 30,000 U.S. troops have been wounded in action.

According to conservative estimates, more than 90,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. The actual number will never be known.

An estimated 2 million Iraqis have fled their country and are living as refugees in appalling conditions in Syria and Jordan. Almost none have been allowed entry into the United States.

An unknown number of Iraqis - upwards to 3 million by some estimates - are displaced within their own country because of sectarian violence.

More than 100 journalists have been killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict.

U.S. troop levels in Iraq are currently at 160,000 with no immediate plans to reduce that number.

In a recent Gallup poll, 59% of Americans said that "the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq."