Government defends invasion of Iraq despite new report
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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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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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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer dismissed newspaper claims the Australian government was repeatedly warned its support for the Iraq war would impede the fight against terrorism.
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Prime Minister John Howard has stood firm against withdrawing troops from Iraq after unconfirmed reports that two Australians have been taken hostage and would be killed within 24 hours unless Canberra pulls out.
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The British government underlined on Thursday that it will not "cut and run" from Iraq following that country's election this month, denying reports that London is pushing Washington to set a timetable for ...
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The latest report on Iraq&#39;s illicit weapons found no evidence that the country was in possession of any nuclear, chemical and biological weapons by the time of the US-led
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Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment by the White House last month adequately reflected the range of views the GAO found within the administration.
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Struggling to defend its Iraq policy, the Bush administration in a 23-page classified report points to limited progress being made by the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Iraq's embattled prime minister defended his government Sunday against American critics, saying they underestimate the problems facing this country and fail to appreciate his achievements "such as stopping the civil and sectarian war."
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The British government is denying reports it will deploy troops to Iraq in the lead-up to the American election, as a show of support to US President George Bush&#39;s re-eleciton bid.
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DEFENCE Minister Robert Hill today defended the Iraq war after a study found about 100,000 civilians had died as a result of the conflict.
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The Government is under renewed fire over claims Tony Blair was warned before the war in Iraq of the scale of the task that would face British and other coalition troops after Saddam Hussein was toppled.
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White House challenges Congressional report casting doubt on the success of the 'surge' strategy.
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DEARBORN, Michigan  - Iraqi-Americans, who overwhelmingly supported the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, reacted with frustration to a White House report on Thursday that said the Iraqi government had failed to meet its goals.
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The Iraqi government has failed to meet 11 of the 18 political, economic and security benchmarks it set for itself, and violence remains high despite the U.S. troop surge, the Government Accountability Office reported today.
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair angrily denied allegations from his political foes yesterday that he "misrepresented" intelligence in making the case to join the US-led invasion of Iraq last year.
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The government was accused Saturday of misleading the British public over plans for postwar Iraq after a newspaper reported that Prime Minister Tony Blair was warned a year before the invasion that postwar stability would be difficult.