Thursday March 15, 2007
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Guest host: Katty Kay
While Democrats in Congress look for a way to limit or end the U.S. military presence in Iraq, some observers say there are signs the "surge" -- the U.S. troop increase in Iraq -- is already having a beneficial effect. A look at what's happening on the ground as a result of the current U.S./Iraqi strategy.
Frederick Kagan, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Julian Barnes, Pentagon reporter for the "Los Angeles Times"
Amb. Peter Galbraith, author of "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End," and former U.S. ambassador to Croatia.
Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh, Baghdad bureau chief for TIME magazine
A Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist tells the hidden and horrific stories of whites in counties in the American South and Midwest who banded together to force blacks to flee their homes in the decades following the Civil War.
Elliot Jaspin, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter for Cox Newspapers.