Maj. Gen. J.D. Thurman, commanding general of the 4thInfantry Division in Iraq, briefs Wyoming Gov. DaveFreudenthal and Texas Gov. Rick Perry at Camp Liberty onWednesday. Photo Courtesy, U.S. Army
Women beat their chests and mourn as a coffin carrying the body of a child is taken for burial in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Oct. 1, 2004. A string of bombs killed 35 children and wounded scores of others as U.S. troops handed out candy Thursday at a government sponsored celebration to inaugurate a new sewage plant. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
President Bush, right, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speak to the media during a joint news conference in the East Room at the White House, Thursday, May 25, 2006, in Washington. President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged difficult times in the Iraq war they launched together in 2003, but both vowed to keep troops there until the new Iraqi government takes hold. Both admitted making costly mistakes. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
An Iraqi boy holds a grenade launcher as he marches with a group of Shiite muslim supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holding an anti-USA military demonstration in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Tuesday June 15, 2004. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington Sunday, June 13, 2004. Alarmed by the assasination of two Iraqi officials, Powell warned Sunday of increasing threats for government figures as the June 30 transfer of political power nears. (AP Photo/NBC Meet the Press, Alex Wong) ** MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES NO ARCHIVES MUST USE BEFORE JUNE 20 2004 **
Photos of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives for Wyoming, Barbara Cubin, left, and Gary Trauner, right. File photos, Casper Star-Tribune.
Iraqi police look through the window of a bullet riddled car at the body of an unidentified man on a highway on the edge of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday May 30, 2004. Gunmen fired on a convoy of sport utility vehicles Sunday evening in the Iraqi capital, and the attackers pulled several "Western-looking men" from the cars and dragged them away, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hoist an image, right, showing Imam Ali, left, and Imam Hussein, right, with Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, front, father of Muqtada al-Sadr, as other followers hold pictures of Muqtada al-Sadr, at the Imam Ali shrine as clashes between the al-Mahdi army and U.S. and Iraqi forces take place near the shrine in the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq Thursday Aug. 19, 2004. Militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Thursday rejected a government ultimatum to disarm his militia immediately and pull them out of a revered Shiite shrine risking a massive onslaught by Iraqi forces. The news came soon after militants, presumably from his Mahdi Army militia, bombarded a Najaf police station with mortars rounds, killing seven policemen and injuring 31 others. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Armed Iraqi police patrol along oil pipelines outside of the town of Faw, Iraq Wednesday June 16, 2004. Saboteurs blasted a key pipeline Wednesday for the second time in as many days, halting Iraq's oil exports, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabeel al-Jurani)
This undated photo released by the Iraq Government on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 is said to show Ahmed Hussein Dabash Samir al-Batawi, who was arrested by a terrorist combat unit on Monday in Baghdad, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister's office. The Iraqi Government alleged in a statement that terror suspect al-Batawi confessed under questioning that he beheaded hundreds of Iraqis in Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces. (AP Photo/Iraq Government)
President Bush, right, makes a statement to reporters as Vice President Dick Cheney looks on at the end of their meeting with the Iraq Study Group, a bi-partisan commission assessing the situation in Iraq and how that affects the surrounding region as well as U.S. interests, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House Wednesday, June 14, 2006 in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
A sign outside the tactical operations center for the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, of the U.S. Army at Forward Operating Base Mahmoudiyah, formerly called Forward Operating Base Saint Michael, in Mahmoudiyah Iraq is shown on June 4. The U.S. Army will investigate charges that five American soldiers from this regiment were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, military officials said Friday. Ryan Lenz, AP
President Bush greets members of the Vienna Boys Choir after they sang for him at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday. Charles Dharapak, AP
Gov. Dave Freudenthal presents a flag for transfer of command to Capt. Nona Nissen, commander of the 1041st Engineer Company, on Thursday as first lady Nancy Freudenthal looks on. The Wyoming Army National Guard unit leaves for 18 months of duty in Iraq and was given a rousing send-off by the governor and others during a ceremony in Rock Springs Thursday. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Casper Star-Tribune.
Lance Cpl. Jay Thurin sits with his wife Ashley Thurin and their baby McKenna near Cheyenne in this Star-Tribune file photo. Jay Thurin is suffering from tramatic brain Injury after surviving a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune file)
Vice President Dick Cheney waves to supporters of U.S. Senate candidate Tom Kean Jr. at a fundraiser in Newark, N.J., Monday, March 20, 2006. Cheney's appearance was expected to raise about $400,000 for Kean, a Republican state senator from New Jersey and son of former New Jersey Gov. and head of the Sept. 11 commission, Thomas Kean. Candidate Kean was delayed by a voting session in the state legislature in Trenton and missed Cheney's appearance at the fundraiser. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, walks to the U.S. District Court in Washington, in this Nov. 16, 2005 file photo, accompanied by his attorney Theodore V. Wells Jr., at rear. Libby told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information to a reporter, according to a new court filing in the CIA leak case. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, hands out cigars to U.S. soldiers during a visit to Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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