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U.S. Winning in Iraq? A Debate Between The Nation's Christian
Parenti and the American Enterprise Institute
Is Nuclear Power The Solution to Global Warming?
Is the U.S. Winning in Iraq? A Debate Between The
Nation's Christian Parenti and the American Enterprise Institute
As the former CIA agent and current Iraqi Prime Minister
Iyad Allawi comes to Washington to praise President Bush's
invasion of Iraq, we examine what is actually happening in
the streets of Iraq. We host a debate with two reporters who
have been embedded in Iraq, Karl Zinsmeister of AEI and Christian
Parenti.
In his first official visit to the United States, Iraq's
interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi addressed a joint session
of the US congress yesterday. He thanked the Bush administration
and congress for overthrowing the government of Saddam Hussein
and said that the US occupation authority and the Iraqi government
were winning the battle against what he called terrorists
operating in Iraq.
He chastised the US media for painting what Allawi called
an unfair picture of the situation in Iraq, saying that what
he sees on US TV does not reflect the successes of the occupation.
Later in the day, Allawi met with President Bush at the White
House. The president praised Allawi's government and gave
this assessment of the situation on the ground in Iraq.
For his part, Allawi said that despite the daily bloodshed,
regular beheadings and an increasingly visible resistance,
Iraq is becoming more stable every day. He said 14 or 15 of
Iraq's 18 provinces “are completely safe. He highlighted
what he said were the economic successes in the new Iraq.
As Allawi made his way around Washington yesterday, Democratic
Presidential candidate John Kerry was campaigning in Ohio
where he commented on the statements by both Bush and Allawi
that the US was winning in Iraq.
With the recent beheadings of two American contractors kidnapped
in Iraq, both Bush and Allawi were asked a number of times
yesterday about what appear to be stepped up attacks by resistance
groups.
To discuss Allawi's visit and the current situation in Iraq,
we are joined by 2 journalists who have spent extensive time
on the frontlines in Iraq.
- Karl Zinsmeister, editor-in-chief of The American Enterprise
Magazine and author of the new book, Dawn Over Baghdad:
How the US Military is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake
Iraq. He has spent extensive time in Iraq embedded with
US troops.
- Christian Parenti, correspondent for the Nation Magazine
and author of the forthcoming book The Freedom: Shadows
and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. Over the past year
he has been embedded with US troops and has spent time with
Iraqi resistance groups.
Is Nuclear Power The Solution to Global Warming?
As a fourth hurricane prepares to hit Florida, we look at
an emerging debate on global warming: could the increaesed
use of nuclear power help end global warming? We are joined
by longtime anti-nuclear activsit Dr. Helen Caldicott and
Scott Peterson, from the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Florida and the Bahamas are bracing for Hurricane Jeanne,
which is churning westward in the Atlantic Ocean with winds
over 100 miles per hour. If Jeanne hits Florida, it will be
the fourth hurricane to hit the state this season. But as
Florida braces, it is the Caribbean that has been hit the
hardest by the Hurricanes. The government of the Bahamas has
issued a warning to its citizens. Last weekend Haiti was devastated
by Jeanne, which at the time was a tropical storm. It triggered
flooding and mudslides.
More than 1,100 people have been killed in Haiti and more
than 1,200 people are missing. The death toll is expected
to rise well above 2,000. It also killed two people in Puerto
Rico and 11 in the Dominican Republic. In Florida, the hurricanes
killed 85 people and caused billions of dollars in damage.
As hurricane after hurricane devastates the Caribbean and
US coastal states, many are raising questions about the role
global warming has played. Now, the nuclear industry is promoting
nuclear power as a solution to global warming.
- Helen Caldicott, one of the worlds most respected anti-nuclear
activists. She was a founder and headed both Physicians
For Social Responsibility and Womens Action For Nuclear
Disarmament. Now she is president of the Nuclear Policy
Research Institute. She has written a number of books, including
"Nuclear Madness-What You Can Do" and "Missile
Envy"
- Scott Peterson, spokesperson for the Washington DC based
Nuclear Energy Institute. The Nuclear Energy Institute is
the policy and lobbying organization of the nuclear energy
and technologies industry.
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