Reports of Progress In Iraq Challenged
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President Bush on Tuesday cited "encouraging signs" of military and political progress in Iraq as his new strategy gets underway. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice noted that "things are going reasonably well." And on Thursday, Rice's special coordinator for Iraq, David M....
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry clashed yesterday about whether conditions are improving in Iraq as the president continued to question his opponent&#39;s ability to lead.
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Provincial reconstruction teams, the civilian centerpiece of the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq, are making "incremental" progress in some areas and very little in others, a government auditor told Congress yesterday.
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President Bush took his critics to task Saturday for using the poor marks the Iraqi government received on a progress report this week as reason to argue that the war is lost.
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US President George Bush&#39;s proclamation last year that the mission in Iraq was accomplished has drawn criticism from Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry.
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Officials from the State Department and the Government Accountability Office disagreed yesterday over whether spending by Iraqi government ministries in 2007 accurately reflected claims of progress the Bush administration made last fall.
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A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one political and security goal into the satisfactory column: de-Baathification
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As the nation awaits next weekâs report on the status of the Iraq war, the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans is escalating on the airwaves.
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Iraq's political leaders are showing promising new signs of progress toward reconciliation, yet still face difficult decisions on how to stabilize the country, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
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A new US intelligence report gives a more gloomy view of Iraq's future than Bush administration statements.
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President George W. Bush has defended the invasion of Iraq despite a new report rejecting. Thursday ratcheted up the political fight over Iraq
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A Bush administration report on Iraq shows satisfactory progress on eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory progress on another eight and mixed results on the other two
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23 September 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told a joint session of the US Congress today that his country is making progress in its effort to create a stable Iraq despite obstacles.
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As President Bush and Gen. David Petraeus struggle to make the case that yet more time is needed for victory in Iraq, the goal for success no longer resembles the high hopes the architects of the 2003 invasion had in mind.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation if the level of violence continues unchecked.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - Many of President Bush's  assertions about progress in Iraq -- from police training and  reconstruction to preparations for January elections -- are in  dispute, according to internal Pentagon documents, lawmakers  and key congressional aides on Sunday.
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Petraeus and Bush put a sunny face on progress in Iraq. But two new assessments provide a morning-after jolt of reality