and redeem them for just about anything. visit citi.com/thankyoucards to apply. on the tepth anniversary of the u.s. war in iraq, a deadly outbreak of car bombs and suicide attacks in baghdad. 56 people were killed and more than 200 people were injured in the attacks, reminding americans of the ongoing instability in iraq. joining me now, retired colonel jack jacobs, a medal of honor recipient and msnbc military analyst and veteran photo journalist, michael kaber, who covered iraq for the new york times. his book photojournalism on war. will be released next month and the washington post s rajiv sondravakiran was a correspondent in the baghdad for
potential for some of them to turn back to the insurgency and violence and you have the ethnic kurds up in the north who constitute a quarter of the population, luke and tensions between them and baghdad continue to escalate and we may be on the brink of another civil war there. michael, we got some of the photographs to include in your book and they re absolutely unbelievable. they re riveting, they have a deep impact. on anyone who looks at them. and just i wanted to get your take on seeing the war firsthand and seeing these graphic images that we re showing on the screen right now. there is one of a commercial airline, casket going in underneath. and just average americans kind of looking at the lens. and that to me was it stuck out because it sort of was this idea that the common you know people of the united states were a little bit above all of this you know, hurt and anguish that was happening. because so many in this country did not know anyone who was serving abroad or did