Two years...

"We try to put it out of our heads, but it comes back anyway. We sit around sometimes, when there’s no electricity, or when we’re gathered for lunch or dinner and someone will say, “Remember two years ago when…” Remember when they bombed Mansur, a residential area… When they started burning the cars in the streets with Apaches… When they hit the airport with that bomb that lit up half of the city… When the American tanks started rolling into Baghdad…? Remember when the fear was still fresh- and the terror was relatively new- and it was possible to be shocked and awed in Iraq?"

An insider's account on the first two years of the American occupation of Iraq, read more on Baghdad Burning