UPI POY 2008 - News and Features

U.S. President George W. Bush discusses the war in Iraq at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia on March 19, 2008, the fifth anniversary of the start of the war. Bush defended the decision to go to war, saying Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein, and that it is better to be fighting Al Qaida in Iraq than in the U.S. (UPI Photo/Brendan Smialowski)