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Vital Practicality of Iraq Elections NPR's Robert Siegel discusses the feasibility and importance of holding elections in Iraq in January. His guests include Leslie Gelb of the Council on Foreign Relations; Francis Fukuyama of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; and Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute. As President Bush insists elections will go ahead in Iraq, the United Nations is no longer sure elections can take place if security conditions continue to deteriorate.

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Vital Practicality of Iraq Elections

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NPR's Robert Siegel discusses the feasibility and importance of holding elections in Iraq in January. His guests include Leslie Gelb of the Council on Foreign Relations; Francis Fukuyama of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; and Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute. As President Bush insists elections will go ahead in Iraq, the United Nations is no longer sure elections can take place if security conditions continue to deteriorate.

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