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President Bush's Plan to Boost Troops in Iraq

by Jessica Tuchman Mathews
published by
NPR's All Things Considered
 on January 11, 2007

Source: NPR's All Things Considered

In his address to the nation on January 10, 2007, President Bush called for an increase of more than 20,000 U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq. But his plan is already attracting skeptics on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Carnegie President Jessica T. Mathews joined commentators on a special edition of NPR’s All Things Considered to provide analysis immediately following the President’s speech.

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(Select "Special Coverage: Speech, Analysis"; Mathews' segment begins at 22:40.) 
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