Iraq Debate: NPR Special Coverage
Audio Files of Select NPR News Coverage

 BACK to latest NPR News coverage of the Iraq debate


Oct. 9, 2002 -- The Senate enters its second week of debate on the use-of-force resolution, with some Democrats fighting for more discussion. The House, on the other hand, begins its second day of debate, and appears much closer to a vote.

 Full day of debate (9 hours)

 Sen. Russ Feingold (D -Wis.) decries the "shifting justifications" for action against Iraq.


Oct. 8, 2002 -- The House hears motions on the parameters of the debate over a use-of-force resolution on Iraq, while senators continue their debate amid the threat of a filibuster over the final vote.

 Full day of debate (15 hours)


Oct. 7, 2002 -- The Senate continues its debate, with Democrats evoking the spectre of the open-ended Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson greater authority to commit troops to Vietnam.

 Part 1 (3 hours)

 Part 2 (1 hour)


Oct. 7, 2002 -- President Bush delivers an address from Cincinnati, Ohio on the need for military intervention to end the threat Saddam Hussein's regime poses to America and the Mideast.

 Full speech (49 minutes)


Oct. 4, 2002 -- The Senate begins its debate over the resolution on Iraq with an "open mic" session where senators hash out the rules and work toward a final revision of the original Bush request.

 Part 1 (3 hours 18 minutes)

 NPR News analysis of debate


Sept. 26, 2002 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell and former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright testify before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the international implications of action against Iraq.

 Kissinger and Albright (3 hours 41 minutes)

 Powell (3 hours 19 minutes)


Sept. 25, 2002 -- The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hears from several advisers to past presidents: James Schlesinger, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, Richard Holbrooke and Robert "Bud" McFarland.

 Berger and Schlesinger (3 hours)

 Holbrooke and McFarland (3 hours)


Sept. 23, 2002 -- The Senate Armed Services Committee hears testimony from four retired generals on the military consequences of action against Iraq: Marine Corps Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, former chief of the U.S. Central Command; Army Gen. Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the war in the Balkans; Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerny; and Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

 Full testimony (3 hours)


Sept. 19, 2002 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell testifies before the House Committee on International Relations.

 Full testimony (2 hours 27 minutes)


Sept. 18, 2002 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on the urgency of immediate military action against Iraq. The hearing is disrupted by protesters chanting "Inspections not war."

 Full testimony (2 hours 23 minutes)


Sept. 12, 2002 -- President Bush addresses the United Nations General Assembly, laying out his case for action against Iraq.

 Full speech (28 minutes)

 NPR analysis of Bush U.N. speech

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