A recent report from a government watchdog group, the Center for Public Integrity, suggests insider connections may have influenced the Bush administration's method of awarding contracts for postwar Iraq's rebuilding. Experts debate the meaning of the report's findings.

As violence continues in Iraq, two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee discuss whether the United States can achieve its goals and long-term plans in the region.

Sixteen U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday in the single deadliest attack against American forces since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.Then, three Iraqi civilians reportedly died in an explosion near a religious shrine in the Muslim holy city of Karbala. Ray…