Iraq interviews on Fresh Air on NPR - when and how to get out

About to start on one of my local stations, on the other one this afternoon, audio up later this afternoon

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

Jan 16-17

A wide-ranging series on the future of the Iraq occupation. Terry Gross talks to military leaders, prominent Iraqis, journalists and policy analysts — asking when America should get out of Iraq and how we should do it.

Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008

* Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 4:00 p.m. ET

* Iraq: U.S. Army Lieut. Col. John Nagl

Lieut. Col. John Nagl commands the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, Kans. He served in Operation Desert Storm and was the operations officer of a tank battalion task force in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He helped author the US Army's Counterinsurgency Field Manual.

* Iraq: Former Iraqi Official Ali A. Allawi

Ali Allawi served as Minister of Trade and Minister of Defense under the Interim Iraq Governing Council from 2003 to 2004, then was Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006. He teaches at Oxford University, and is author of The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace.

* Iraq: British Army Gen. Sir Michael Rose, Ret.

Gen. Sir Michael Rose was best known as the Commander of the U.N. Protection Force in Bosnia in the 1990s. In 2006, he called for the impeachment of then Prime Minister Tony Blair for leading England into war in Iraq under false pretenses.

* Iraq: Professor Kanan Makiya

Iraqi-born professor Kanan Makiya teaches Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He was one of the leading Arab intellectuals who called for the removal of Saddam Hussein; he also advised the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq.

* Iraq: Former U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith

A former U.S. ambassador to Croatia and a senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Nonroliferation, Peter Galbraith is author of The End of Iraq and After Iraq: Cleaning Up After America's Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake.

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"tens of thousands of troops" in Iraq for at least a decade; now agreeing with Iraqi defense times of 2012/2018....


2nd guest (an Iraqi) very different perspective on timelines...