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10:00Iraq Update

Diane and her guests talk about the Iraqi Prime Minister's visit to Washington this week, plans for a U.S. troop increase for Baghdad, and other news from Iraq.

Guests

Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration

Dr. Phebe Marr, senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and author of "A Modern History of Iraq" (Westview Press 1991)

11:00Ann Fessler: "The Girls Who Went Away" (Penguin Press)

An adoptee tells the story of her quest to find her birth mother. She's joined by two women who surrendered their babies in the decades before Roe v. Wade.

Guests

Ann Fessler, a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and a specialist in video-installation art.

Ann Hughes, President, Gateway Press; Author, "Soul Connection: Memoir of a Birthmother's Healing Journey;" surrendered her daughter in 1961 at age 21

Margaret McMorrow, director of case management, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore; surrendered her son at age 17

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