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NPR : Congress Mulls Options in Iraq

NPR : Congress Mulls Options in Iraq: "Weekend Edition Sunday, July 22, 2007 · Continue with the surge? Withdraw completely? Or find some politically palatable middle ground?
These are the questions faced by Congress over the Bush administration's surge policy.
Stephen Biddle, senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, talks to Liane Hansen."

listen the audio here. npr.org

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