More than 20,000 Marines and sailors under the command of the Camp Pendleton-based I Marine Expeditionary Force and its infantry element, the 1st Marine Division, rolled into Iraq over the Kuwaiti border on March 20, 2003.
The report illustrates the scope of the invasion in detail. More than 1,800 coalition aircraft flew more than 41,000 sorties into Iraq from March 20 to April 30. Thirty percent of the U.S. military's total active duty personnel were involved.
The Bush administration and Pentagon leaders spent the months leading up to the invasion sounding the alarm on Iraq's military capabilities and its willingness to use weapons of mass destruction. Some tried to tie Hussein's regime to the attacks of 9/11. Almost 4,500 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq and estimates of Iraqi deaths, including civilians, range from 150,000 to more than 500,000.
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