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Some analysts estimate that the U.S. is spending about $12 billion dollars a month to fund military operations in Iraq. We'll hear different views on the economic costs of the war and what we gained as a result.
Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution
Linda Bilmes, Professor, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Winslow Wheeler, director, Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information
Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, International, author of "The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars from the Revolution to the War on Terror" and a former member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Being the victim of a bully at school is often dismissed as just a part of growing up, but many say it can leave lasting emotional scars. A survivor of peer abuse offers advice for parents, teachers and children on coping with and putting an end to the abusive practice.
Jodee Blanco, author, of "Please Stop Laughing at Us" published 2008 and "Please Stop Laughing at Me" published 2003
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