Congressional auditors have determined that the Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy, The Associated Press has learned.
Congressional auditors have determined that the Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush?s Iraq war strategy.
The Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded over the past four years to support U.S. forces in Iraq to determine how many are tainted by waste, fraud and abuse, service officials said Wednesday.
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...
If prosecutors? past legal problems are repeated, none of the marines charged with killing civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, will be convicted.
When an issue is as volatile as the war in Iraq, any member of Congress who takes a stand apart from most of his or her party is bound to be noticed.
The Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded over the past four years to support U.S. forces in Iraq to determine how many are tainted by waste, fraud and abuse, service officials said yesterday.
Hundreds of people lined the streets Wednesday for a procession carrying the flag-draped casket of an Army corporal, the second son in his family killed in Iraq.
President Bush may not get a unified view from senior military leaders on how well the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq is working and how long it should continue, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
As of Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, at least 3,732 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 3,057 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.