Ray Jacques reads the San Francisco Chronicle's war special section inside a Starbucks coffee shop in San Francisco, in this March 20, 2003 file photo. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)

President Bush speaks at the United States Coast Guard installation Monday, March 31, 2003 in Philadelphia. Bush, linking war in Iraq to his global anti-terrorism campaign, warned that Saddam Hussein or his terrorist allies may try to strike America in retaliation for the U.S.-led fighting. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)

Karem Mohammed weeps over the bodies of his family, inluding his six children, his wife, two brothers, mother and father in Al Hillah, Iraq120 kilometers south of Baghdad, Tuesday April 1, 2003. Hospital officials said over 300 were injured and 33 died during coalition air raids over the area. Karem, from Nasariya, had come to Al Hillal for safety. (Photo by Ali Heider/AP Photo)

An unidentified US soldier stands guard as oil workers put out an oil well fire at Rumailah oil field, southern Iraq on Tuesday, April 1, 2003. Kuwaiti and American firefighters are putting out the blazes at six oil wells that were sabotaged, reportedly by retreating Iraqi forces. (Photo by Gustavo Ferrari/AP Photo)

President Bush gets a tour of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, May 1, 2003, off the California coast. The president will declare Thursday night that major combat in Iraq is finished during a speech aboard the carrier tonight as the Lincoln steams toward San Diego following a record 10-month deployment. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

President Bush greets an unidentified sailor after landing in a small jet on the USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast Thursday, May 1, 2003. Bush will declare that major combat in Iraq is finished during a speech aboard the carrier tonight as the Lincoln steams toward San Diego following a record 10-month deployment. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)

A man plays piano in one of the palaces of ousted Iraq President Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Saturday May 3, 2003, as others loot the palace. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)

Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred and mutilated bodies of U.S. contractors hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in this March 31, 2004 file photo. A lawsuit filed in 2005, filed by the families of the four slain employees of security contractor Blackwater USA, accuses the company of failing to provide the security guards with the appropriate equipment – such as armored vehicles or even a map. After years of appeals and legal maneuvering, Blackwater has successfully steered a wrongful death lawsuit into private arbitration. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)

An Iraqi soldier stands guard as a pipeline burns in the background after an explosion 30 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of Tikrit, Iraq, Monday, February 11, 2008. (Photo by Bassem Daham/AP Photo)

In this March 25, 2008 file photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chad Caldwell, 24, from Spokane, Wash., plays golf as his comrades from K Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, look on at Combat Outpost Rabiy in Mosul, Iraq. (Photo by Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo)

In this June 25, 2008 file photo, a female police officer aims with her pistol in a shooting range, during a graduation ceremony in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Some 115 police woman graduated from Karbala's police academy. (Photo by Ahmed Alhussainey/AP Photo)

In this undated photo provided by Capt. Nolan Gordon, an Iraqi youngster gathers for a photo with former Army football player Capt. Nolan Gordon in Diyarha Iraq. Like most of the men who played in the 2001 Army-Navy game, Gordon went on to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan – or both – during the 10 years that followed the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. (Photo by Courtesy Capt. Nolan Gordon/AP Photo)

This August 29, 2009 file photo shows Iraqis walking past destroyed cars after a massive bomb attack in front of the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq. The country is moving toward some level of stability. But it came only after years that pushed Iraq perilously close to civil war between the Sunnis who lost power after Saddam's fall and the majority Shiites who took control of the aftermath. The tallies: more than 4,350 U.S. soldiers dead; at least 87,500 Iraqi civilians killed, according to government figures. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)

In this August 25, 2010 file photo, Janet Allegra, of Ellington, hugs her son Spc. John Allegra IV at the Army aviation support facility in Windsor Locks, Conn. About 110 soldiers of the 250th Engineer Co. Connecticut National Guard who were deployed to Iraq last winter have returned home. (Photo by Jessica Hill/AP Photo)

In this September 2, 2009 file photo, an Iraqi national police officer escorts a man detained in a raid that netted a large cache of weapons north of Baghdad, Iraq. A leaked U.S. diplomatic memo says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accused Iran and Syria of arming insurgents in September 2009. The memo, which was recently posted on the WikiLeaks website, quotes al-Maliki as telling then-U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill that five Shiite militants had been captured trying to smuggle missiles in the false floor of a Toyota Land Cruiser. (Photo by Karim Kadim/AP Photo)

In this August 25, 2010 file photo, an Iraqi girl wears bandages after being injured in a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Frequent bombings, assassinations and a resurgence in violence by Shiite militias have made Iraq more dangerous now than it was just a year ago, a U.S. government watchdog concludes in a report released Saturday, July 30, 2011. (Photo by Ahmed al-Husseini/AP Photo)

U.S. Army Lt. Christopher Chavez, 28, from Sacramento, Calif., center, and Staff Sgt. Michael Snyder, left, 35, from Glendale, Ariz., of D Co., 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, search a Saddam Hussein-era military vehicle graveyard outside Contingency Operating Site Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, August 7, 2011. (Photo by Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo)

Cpt. Brian Fielder, commander of the Rhode Island National Guard's 1207th support company hugs his son Hoah, 19 months, upon his return from a one year deployment in Kuwait, where his unit oversaw security for convoys moving in and out of Iraq, in North Kingstown, RI., Friday afternoon, August 19, 2011. (Photo by Stephan Savoia/AP Photo)

Marine Sgt. Rob Jones, 25, of Lovettsville, Va., listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2011. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the military's flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care for more than a century, is closing its doors. Hundreds of thousands of the nation's war wounded from World War I to today have received treatment at Walter Reed, including 18,000 troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Photo by Luis M. Alvarez/AP Photo)