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Conversations on Iraq As the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq closes in on its second year, Day to Day explores the consequences, pitfalls and potential benefits of fostering a democracy in the Mideast with an ongoing series of interviews from those on all sides of the debate.
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Conversations on Iraq

Tuesday

Sen. Feingold on Ending Iraq War

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday considers a Republican proposal calling on the Bush administration to begin laying out a plan to end the war in Iraq. Alex Chadwick speaks with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) about the proposal.

Sen. Feingold on Ending Iraq War

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Thursday

'Assassins' Gate': Bush and America's Iraq Disaster

The Assassins' Gate is New Yorker reporter George Packer's scathing account of the Bush administration's push to change the political future of the Middle East through force.

'Assassins' Gate': Bush and America's Iraq Disaster

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Tuesday

A Strategy for Leaving Iraq

Former Nixon Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird argues in a new article in the quarterly Foreign Affairs that the United States should transfer power to a trained Iraqi military and continue to support Iraq even as American forces withdraw. Alex Chadwick speaks with Laird as part of an ongoing series of conversations about Iraq.

A Strategy for Leaving Iraq

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Tuesday

Analysis

Slate's War Stories: Volunteering for Duty in Iraq

Attorney, Slate military affairs writer and Army Capt. Phillip Carter has volunteered for a tour of duty in Iraq. Alex Chadwick speaks to Carter from Las Vegas, where he's spending his last few days in America before joining the 101st Airborne Division.

Slate's War Stories: Volunteering for Duty in Iraq

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Thursday

U.S. Links to Saddam During Iran-Iraq War

The war between Iran and Iraq begain 25 years ago Thursday, and it reshaped the way the United States looks at political alliances in the Middle East. Alex Chadwick talks with NPR diplomatic correspondent Mike Shuster about America's military and diplomatic support of Saddam Hussein during that decade-long war, and the consequences of those ties today.

U.S. Links to Saddam During Iran-Iraq War

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Monday

'Love My Rifle': A Woman Soldier's Guide to Iraq

American and Iraqi special forces continue door-to-door searches for rebels in northern Iraq on Monday — the same region where author and military intelligence specialist Kayla Williams served. Williams wrote about her experiences in her new book Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army. As part of the ongoing Day to Day series of conversations about the war in Iraq, Alex Chadwick talks with Williams about her book.

'Love My Rifle': A Woman Soldier's Guide to Iraq

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Tuesday

Protests in Crawford

A Conversation with Iraq War Activist Cindy Sheehan

Alex Chadwick speaks with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an Army specialist killed in Iraq who has been staging a weeks-long vigil outside the president's ranch Crawford, Texas. Sheehan is calling on President Bush to explain what "noble cause" her son died for -- and her actions have divided the community of families of U.S. service members who've died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

A Conversation with Iraq War Activist Cindy Sheehan

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