Iraq Study Group chairs defend report
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The chairmen of the Iraq Study Group on Sunday defended their report against critics as a "responsible way" forward, while President George W. Bush prepares to unveil his new strategy later this month.
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John P. Murtha, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is one of the most influential players in challenging President Bushâs Iraq policy.
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The Iraq Study Group's long-awaited report on how the U.S. should overhaul its effort in Iraq will be released online on Wednesday, with members of the panel expected to testify on Capitol Hill the following day.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq defended his record on Thursday after scathing criticism in Congress, declaring he had laid the foundations for success and his strategy had made progress in a tough environment.
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Washington -- National security adviser Condoleezza Rice defended on Sunday the emphatic statements she made in the run-up to the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program, as a news report said prominent officials had voiced
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A key US report saying Saddam Hussein had no WMD intensifies debate on the justification for war with Iraq.
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On Sept. 30, chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer filed his 1,000 page report on Iraq. It was the culmination of efforts by the CIA-created Iraq Survey Group to reach a definitive consensus on whether the
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President Bush huddled with top military leaders about the Iraq war Friday, and Pentagon officials defended efforts to rid the Iraqi national police of sectarian bias and corruption, even as an independent review found the force too tainted to continue.
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Parties opposed to the war in Iraq have seized on a new study that claims at least 100,000 civilians have died as a result of the action and its aftermath.
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The U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends.
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The government renewed its defense of its decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq, despite a US report which says former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
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The co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group called on Congress to endorse the groupÂs bipartisan call for a sharp change in course in the Iraq war.
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Two U.S. contractors implicated in  the Abu Ghraib prison scandal defended their work in Iraq  Thursday, with one saying its employees were not involved in  "horrendous" abuses listed in a new report.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 6 -- The Iraq Study Group's prescriptions hinge on a fragile Iraqi government's ability to achieve national reconciliation and security at a time when the country is fractured along sectarian lines, its security forces are ineffective and competing visions threaten to collapse the...
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Two U.S. contractors implicated in  the Abu Ghraib prison scandal defended their work in Iraq on  Thursday, with one saying its employees were not involved in  "horrendous" abuses listed in a new report.
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Britain's former top Iraq expert at the United Nations said in previously secret testimony that most government officials did not believe Iraq posed a threat in the months leading to the U.S.-led invasion, according to a new report.
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President Bush heard a blunt and dismal assessment of his handling of Iraq from a group of military experts yesterday, but the advisers shared the White House's skeptical view of the recommendations made last week by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, sources said.