War in Iraq

Retired Lt. Col. Joe Repya, 58, is going back to the Army and Iraq, 14 years after he flew a combat helicopter there during Desert Storm. He will be in far more dangerous campaign than he's seen recently in Minnesota, where he's had a key role in President Bush's re-election effort in the state. (09/24/2004)

Live coverage from National Public Radio of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's address to a joint meeting of Congress. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) ( 09/23/2004)

A new poll sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio and the St. Paul Pioneer Press suggests that most Minnesotans have misgivings about certain aspects of the war or its aftermath, but a majority still says the president is better prepared to manage the situation. (09/22/2004)

President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq in a speech on Tuesday to the United Nations, urging the world community to turn its attention to the fighting the war on terrorism and humanitarian concerns. He told a subdued U.N. General Assembly session that the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein delivered the Iraqi people from "an outlawed dictator." (09/21/2004)

The Republican National Convention opens when the nation is at war. President George Bush's handling of the Iraq war and terrorism is at the center of his re-election campaign. We get an update on the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. ( 08/30/2004)

Military operations in the holy city of Najaf are a point of contention at an elections conference in Iraq. But the discussions on how the January elections will work continue. ( 08/17/2004)

Finishing up a congressional trip to Iraq, Rep. Betty McCollum was struck by how fearful ordinary Iraqis were of continued violence. Rep. Mark Kennedy, on the same trip, marveled at how much things are improving. (08/09/2004)

Army Ranger Andrew Exum talks about his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was a platoon leader in combat. ( 08/03/2004)

Midmorning takes a look at how one reporter is covering Iraq, perhaps the biggest on-going story for more than a year. ( 07/20/2004)

A new poll shows Minnesotans continue to be divided about the war in Iraq and its aftermath. The Minnesota Public Radio-St. Paul Pioneer Press poll finds no overwhelming consensus on whether the U.S. intervention will make things better in Iraq, and whether it will improve the United States' standing in the world. (07/20/2004)

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the information that America went to war with last year was flawed. And the panel's vice chairman says Congress never would have backed the Iraq war if lawmakers knew then what they know now. The panel has released a report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq, saying many intelligence assessments were exaggerated or flat-out wrong. (07/09/2004)

A report from the Senate Intelligence Committee blasts CIA director George Tenet for prewar assessments of Iraqi weapons. The 500-page document says U.S. intelligence agencies gave inflated or wrong conclusions before the Iraq war. ( 07/09/2004)

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the two determined architects of the war against Saddam Hussein, celebrated the early transfer of political power to Iraqis Monday. "The Iraqi people have their country back," Bush said. (06/28/2004)

The Coalition Provisional Authority has handed control of the Iraqi government to an interim council. The ceremony came days earlier than expected. Questions remain on how to deal with security problems as well as how the new government will resolve ethnic divisions. ( 06/28/2004)

The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early Monday in a surprise move that apparently caught insurgents off guard, averting a feared campaign of attacks to sabotage the historic step toward self-rule. Legal documents transferring sovereignty were handed over by U.S. governor L. Paul Bremer to chief justice Midhat al-Mahmood in a small ceremony in the heavily guarded Green Zone. Bremer took charge in Iraq about a year ago. (06/28/2004)