Four years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush plans to send in another 21,500 more U.S. troops. A look at the status of the war in Iraq and a major protest against the war in which many kids participated.

Lieutenant Ehren Watada is the first U.S. Army commissioned officer to refuse an order to go to Iraq and to publicly speak out against the war. He faces several year in prison for his stand.

A new study says that more than 650,000 Iraqis have died since the U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003.

On Sept. 7, the Senate approved spending $63 billion more for the war in Iraq, bringing the total to $469.7 billion.

You would know how I felt if any of your relatives went to war. I saw my uncle on TV once over Christmas, wishing us a Merry Christmas. He was very sad, and so was I. He really misses us.

I think we should withdraw from Iraq. Bush started this war because of rumors. I am against the war. The U.S. are bullies.

Here are just a few of the major events that took place last year

The situation in Iraq is bad. One of Sima’s cousins was killed by insurgents, and another cousin was injured recently.

My son, Tony, is in the Army. His job was in communications but as he found out, during a war you are used wherever the military needs a body.