Photo: #An Iraqi policeman stands guard at a checkpoint decorated with plastic flowers on Palestine street in Baghdad on July 9, 2008. Security continued to improve in Iraq from March to May 2008, with violence at its lowest level in four years, but the gains are 'fragile, reversible and uneven,' a quarterly Pentagon report said last month.
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An Iraqi policeman stands guard at a checkpoint decorated with plastic flowers on Palestine street in Baghdad on July 9, 2008. Security continued to improve in Iraq from March to May 2008, with violence at its lowest level in four years, but the gains are 'fragile, reversible and uneven,' a quarterly Pentagon report said last month. (ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images)

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War in Iraq

New questions on U.S. role in Iraq war

Broadcast: Midday, 07/10/2008, 11:00 a.m.

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Midday explores the current developments in the war in Iraq, the new debate over a timetable for withdrawal or U.S. troops from Iraq, and a recent U.S. Army report about the failures in the post-invasion plan.

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  • Colin Kahl: assistant professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security

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