Jul 14 Iraqi Governing Council Convenes, Violence Continues Despite the formal introduction of a new 25-member Iraqi interim governing council this weekend, attacks against American occupying forces continued, including the killing of a U.S. soldier Monday. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch First Steps for the Iraqi Governing Council The U.S.-appointed Iraqi governing council held its inaugural meeting Sunday. Ray Suarez discusses the group's significance and the challenges it faces with Adeed Dawisha and Edmund Ghareeb. Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch Reasons for War with Sir Jeremy Greenstock Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the United Kingdom's incoming envoy to Iraq, discusses the coalition's case for going to war with Iraq and the faulty intelligence used in the president's State of the Union address. Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch Defending Claims President Bush and members of his administration spent much of the week answering questions on their justification for a war in Iraq and U.S. intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Ray Suarez discusses the intelligence controversy. Continue watching
Jul 09 Rumsfeld Defends Pre- and Post-Iraq War Actions The United States did not go to war with Iraq based on new evidence that Saddam Hussein was attempting to acquire weapons of mass destruction, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch Loose Ends in Iraq Gwen Ifill discusses the controversy over prewar intelligence and the dangers facing U.S. troops in Iraq with Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., and Michigan's Carl Levin, the committee's ranking Democrat. Continue watching
Jul 08 U.S. Officials Back Away From Prewar Iraq Nuclear Claims Bush administration officials, still facing questions over the use of prewar intelligence on Iraq, acknowledged Tuesday that President Bush's assertion that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium from Niger was based on forged documents. Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch Guerrilla War in Iraq? Attacks on Americans in Iraq have killed about 30 people since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat in the country was over. Ray Suarez gets three perspectives on the situation facing U.S. forces in postwar Iraq. Continue watching
Jul 07 Attacks Kill Three Soldiers, General Says No More Troops Needed in Iraq The outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said he saw no reason to increase the number of troops deployed in the war-torn country, despite continuing attacks that left another three American soldiers and a British journalist dead in Baghdad. Continue reading
Jul 03 Eight U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Iraq Attacks Iraqi fighters wounded eight U.S. soldiers in separate attacks on Thursday, a day after President George Bush sent a message to would-be assailants saying the U.S. had sufficient force to deal with any resistance. Continue reading