Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, explains an operational detail to reporters during a Pentagon press conference with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld on March 25, 2003. Myers and Rumsfeld updated reporters on the progress of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein.