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New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate and New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on July 26, 2006 in New York.
New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate and New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on July 26, 2006 in New York. (AP Photo)

Should the U.S. Get Out of Iraq?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

After three and a half years, 2,700 U.S. casualties, spending of $379 billion, and no end in sight, a forum at Town Hall took on the question: Should the U.S. get out of Iraq? Congressman Jack Murtha and former Senator George McGovern grappled with the question along with others. We’ll play excerpts of the taped debate and make available the full audio online. Plus: Eliot Spitzer takes questions on what he’d do if he gets elected governor and a new play that encompasses the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn, roller coaster rides, 9/11, and Starbucks.


Stuy-Town Sold

Daniel Garodnick, New York City Councilmember, District 4
- discuses the sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village


On the Road

Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General and candidate for Governor (D)
- talks about his campaign


Open Phones

-Listeners call in about the Stuy-Town sale


The Old Ball Game

Heather Woodbury, playwright and performer, winner of the inaugural Spalding Gray Award
- on her first multi-actor ensemble work, A Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks, that takes as its starting point the move of the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles

Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks is in performance at Performance Space 122 through October 29th.

Tale of 2Cities is also available for purchase at Amazon.com


Should the U.S. Get Out of Iraq?

Congressman John Murtha, D-12 (PA), ranking member, and former chairman, of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee; Vietnam combat veteran and retired Marine Corps colonel
and
George McGovern, former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate; co-author of Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
and
William Polk, historian and co-author of Out of Iraq
and
James Carafano, senior fellow for National Security and Homeland Security at The Heritage Foundation
and
Salameh Nematt, Washington bureau chief for Al Hayat International Arab Daily
-a live forum at Town Hall examining the options for, and the consequences of, an exit strategy for the U.S. in Iraq
Listen to the whole debate



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