The Brian Lehrer Show

U.S. army soldiers slow down for a flock of ducks while patrolling the northern Iraqi city of Mosul (US Army/Spc. David J. Nunn)

Ousted!

Thursday, August 11, 2005

On Tuesday, Baghdad’s mayor was ousted by the Badr Brigade militia and replaced by a political rival. Today in Iraq, power is accruing to non-democratic militia groups, many of which are supported by Iran and impose conservative religious rule where they are active.

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Ousted!

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, and author, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005),
and
Dan Murphy, Arab World correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor
-on the ousting of the mayor of Baghdad, and the role of militias in Iraq's future

» Larry Diamond (The Hoover Institution)
» Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books)
» The Christian Science Monitor

Arianna in the A.M.

Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist, editor of the HuffingtonPost.com, and author, Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (Miramax, 2004),
-on Judith Miller, the drug war, and whether adultery should be a fireable offense in the US Army
» The Huffington Post

Peering Eyes

Laurence Tribe, professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School

and
Douglas Kmiec, chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University
- on the origins of the implied constitutional "right to privacy"

» Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School)
» Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine University)