21 Days to Baghdad21 Days to Baghdad chronicles the U. S. Armys 3rd Infantry Division during the 2003 siege of Baghdad and its subsequent nation building mission in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon arrival in Baghdad in early April 2003, the 3rd Infantry Division began a complex security mission that required the soldiers and their commanders to convince Iraqi citizens that the U. S. was there to help them. At the same time, they continued fighting Saddam Husseins elite