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Iraqis head to the polls in the country's first provincial elections since 2005. A look at the significance of the vote, who's participating, and what it may mean for US withdrawal plans.
Jane Arraf, Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor
Nancy Youssef, Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers
Daniel Serwer, Vice President, Centers of Innovation and Peace and Stability Operations at the United States Institute of Peace; former executive director, the Iraq Study Group
Lawrence Korb, Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration
Joan Claybrook has been called the dean of consumer activism. She offers a look back on her twenty-seven years as president of Public Citizen and what she sees as the most important health, safety, and environmental challenges to be addressed by the Obama administration.
Joan Claybrook, President of Public Citizen and former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration during the Carter Administration.
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