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Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Just mention, "Iraq," on this page and the comments start to fly... stay, go, surge, withdraw, etc, etc. After spending most of the first hour today talking about what life is like in Iraq, we'll step back and talk with Francis Fukuyama here in Washington, D.C. He argued in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that, "the surge was the last military card we had to play, and now our bluff will soon be called.... We need to start figuring out how to leave this zombie-like zone." So, is it time to leave Iraq? And, if so, how do you minimize the costs?