On May ist 2003, at 6pm Pacific daylight time, the immense power of the United States reached a peak. After just six weeks' fighting, Saddam Hussein's 375,000-strong army had been routed at a cost of only 138 American lives. Standing on the flight deck of the aircraft-carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, before a banner emblazoned with the words "Mission Accomplished", President George Bush proclaimed that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
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