Iraqi Freedom Day - April 9th

usinfo.state.gov: To commemorate Iraq's liberation three years ago, when coalition forces removed Saddam Hussein's regime from power, the Iraqi government has declared April 9 "Iraqi Freedom Day," says U.S. Army Major General Rick Lynch, spokesman for Multi-National Force - Iraq.

"Sometimes we get so caught up in the events of the day, the struggle to form a national unity government, the most recent [insurgent attack], that we forget the progress that has been made in the last three years," Lynch told journalists at an April 6 press briefing in Baghdad, Iraq.

When the coalition's final drive on April 7, 2003, ended its rapid, dramatic "thunder run" in the heart of Baghdad two days later, "the people of the world knew that the coalition was there to free the people of Iraq," ...

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