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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:00 am

Marine Sergeant Jeremiah Workman fought in Fallujah. Won the Navy Cross – and a brutal case of PTSD. He’ll tell his story.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 10:00 am

Saad Eskander has faced down looters and gunfire as director of Iraq’s National Library and Archives. He joins us to look at Iraq’s future as US combat troops prepare to leave.

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Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

Vietnam War critic Daniel Ellsberg and Iraq War critic and Colin Powell’s right-hand man, Lawrence Wilkerson, say we need to take a long, hard look at Afghanistan.

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 10:00 am

U.S. troops have left Iraqi cities, and the big withdrawal is in motion. But the security situation remains fragile. We’ll check in with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill and top journalists.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll talk with military families behind two long wars about what it takes to keep the home fires burning.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 10:00 am

Talk about awkward.
The United States and Iraq are negotiating a new legal framework for U.S. military operations in Iraq. A new “status of forces agreement.”
And Iraq’s prime minister stands up and says the negotiations aren’t working. That they’re at an impasse. That Iraq’s demands are unacceptable to the U.S. and U.S. demands [...]

 
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:00 am

We look at the meaning and uncertain milestone of 4,000 U.S. troops dead in Iraq.
Guests:
Tom Bowman, Pentagon correspondent for NPR.
Alissa Rubin, Deputy Baghdad Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Corporal Augie Schraeder who was serving [...]

 
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 11:00 am

Five years in, President Bush now says the Iraq war has brought the United States to the brink of a great strategic victory. Many others call the war the greatest strategic blunder in American history.
Either way, there are decisions to be made. If we should stay, how long? If we should go, how fast? How [...]

 
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 10:00 am

Five years ago today, the “shock and awe” bombardment was ending in Baghdad, and U.S. troopers were pouring over the border from Kuwait into Iraq.
They were not told to expect a five-year slog: longer, as Barack Obama now puts it, than World War I, longer than World War II, longer than the Civil War.
In this [...]

 
Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

Pennsylvania Democrat Patrick Murphy is the only Iraq War veteran in Congress.
He can tell you all about driving into enemy fire in a Humvee without adequate armor; losing the battles for Iraqi hearts and minds; the strategic blunders of the Bush administration; the high price and pain of long deployments, and the 19 comrades who [...]

 
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 10:00 am

In the glare of presidential campaign lights and stock market bonfires, it’s almost possible for the war in Iraq to disappear.
But not if you’re a soldier, or an Iraqi, or cutting the checks in Washington, or feeling the strain at the Pentagon.
Iraq’s Defense Minister says U.S. troops will be needed for another decade. John McCain [...]

 
Monday, November 26, 2007 at 10:00 am

It feels like we’ve seen this before: US troops make progress in Iraq, while Iraq’s political and ethnic divide appears as vast as ever.
And yet something real has happened on the ground: the terrible bloodletting brought on by the fall of Saddam has ebbed. Neighborhoods are quieter. And as promised, the first drawdown of US [...]

 
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 10:00 am

After World War II, some 8 million veterans came home and went to college on the GI Bill, helping create the American middle class. Now, the latest generation of vets — battle-tried in Iraq and Afghanistan — is coming home, and many are going to college.
They’ve got less help from Uncle Sam, but they are [...]

 
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 10:00 am

Iraq has the world’s third largest proven reserves of oil, and they’re barely tapped. This week, the price of oil reached $82 dollars a barrel — the highest in history. And Alan Greenspan says in his new memoir that, at least for him, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was “largely about oil.”
Iraq’s ocean of oil [...]

 
Monday, September 17, 2007 at 10:00 am

Americans overwhelmingly say they oppose the war in Iraq, but the war in Iraq goes on.
So, where’s the antiwar movement?
Well, it’s all over — and nowhere. It’s in Congress, among Democrats and some Republicans. It was in the streets of Washington, D.C. this weekend, with a few thousand protestors chanting and marching. It was in [...]

 
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 10:00 am

The stated goal of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq was to create breathing room for political reconciliation in Baghdad. That has not happened.
But reporting to Congress this week, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are pushing for patience — a pullback, next year, of the surge, but an open-ended U.S. military commitment in [...]

 
Friday, February 24, 2006 at 10:00 am

Roughly 120 people have died in sectarian violence since the bombing Wednesday in Baghdad that destroyed the golden dome of one of Shiite’s most holy shrines. Many worry this could be the spark that ignites an all-out civil war in Iraq.
Sunnis announced Thursday they would withdraw from talks to form a new government in protest [...]

 
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The Pandora Effect
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Friday, November 20, 2009 image

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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