Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke reminds reporters of the eight Operation Iraqi Freedom mission objectives during a Pentagon press conference with Maj. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, U.S. Army, on April 14, 2003. 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. McChrystal is the vice director for Operations, J-3, the Joint Staff.