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The Iraq 12,000

Twelve thousand pages long, it’s being called Iraq’s “Weapon of Mass Obfuscation.” But Iraq’s weapons list, submitted on Saturday, keeps Baghdad in compliance of U.N. Resolution 1441, for now. Where will Washington and the Security Council go from here?

Guests:

James Bone, United Nations correspondent for the Times of London

Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Gary Millhollin, Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

Jack Beatty, On Point News Analyst, senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly magazine

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