White House Releases a Three-Year OIF Fact Sheet

March 21, 2006

White House Releases a Three-Year OIF Fact Sheet: In addition to marking the three-year anniversary of the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom in President Bush’s weekly radio address, the White House put out a fact sheet— “Operation Iraqi Freedom: Three Years Later.”

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