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10:00Iraqi Civilians

The conflict's toll on civilian life.

Guests

Hassan Mneimneh, director of documentation, Iraq Memory Foundation

Les Roberts, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, coauthor of a new study in the Lancet medical journal on Iraqi mortality since the 2003 invasion.

Anthony Cordesman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Maysoon Pachachi, founder, Independent Film And Television College in Baghdad

11:00Hampton Sides: "Blood and Thunder" (Doubleday)

Writer Hampton Sides offers a history of the fight for control of the American frontier from the Army of the West's trek to Santa Fe in 1846 to The Long Walk of the Navajos in 1864-1865 including Kit Carson's larger than life role in U.S. Manifest Destiny.

Guests

Hampton Sides, editor-at-large for "Outside" magazine and author of "Ghost Soldiers"

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