Iraq

Iraq

The President gears up for the September progress report and pressure to begin withdrawing troops builds.

The President gears up for the September progress report and pressure to begin withdrawing troops builds.

Guests

Leila Fadel

Baghdad bureau chief, McClatchy Newspapers

Rand Beers

president, National Security Network; former special assistant to the President and senior director for combating terrorism at the National Security Council (2002-03.

Karen DeYoung

senior diplomatic correspondent, The Washington Post.

Peter Brookes

senior fellow for national security affairs at the Heritage Foundation; former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs in the second Bush administration; author, "A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, WMD and Rogue States."

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