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Four years and over 3,000 American lives later, has the war been worth it?
Tonight on Hardball, we continue MSNBC's coverage of the "Iraq War: Four Years
In," at 5 and 7 PM EST with a hard look at what's worked, what hasn't and
what's ahead for our country and the people of Iraq. Chris is back and we've
assembled the NBC News team of reporters and the best resources to talk about
the military plan, the veterans, how the new Congress is shaping what happens
next, and the effect of the media's eye watching every turn in the war.
We'll begin tonight with one of the earliest critics of the war, Democratic
party chairman Howard Dean. Then, what's really happening on the ground?
We'll have reports from NBC's Tom Aspell, live from Camp Victory in Iraq, and
NBC News Middle East Correspondent and Beirut Bureau Chief Richard Engel. This
Wednesday at 10 PM EST, Engel shares his war zone diary - a raw video journal
four years in the making - in a must-see documentary right here on MSNBC. Get
all the details: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17636144/.
The recent scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center cast a spotlight on the
treatment of veterans returning home from war and led to a flood of complaints
about other veterans' facilities across the country. Tonight, an exclusive
report from Newsweek's Jonathan Alter on the questionable deaths of veterans at
one VA hospital on the West Coast. Learn more here:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633. Then, we'll talk to Iraq veteran Paul
Hackett, a former U.S. House candidate in Ohio about what's being done to
ensure the servicemen and women who serve in the Middle East are being treated
properly at home. Plus, after the heavy causalities and equally heavy
criticism, does the military still support the war? NBC Military Analyst Gen.
Barry McCaffrey (Ret.) will share his insight.
Newsweek's Howard Fineman and Paul Krugman from the New York Times will join
Chris to talk about the how the media coverage of this war has been different
from any other. Read the latest from Fineman, "The Timid Politics of War"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17644884/site/newsweek/.
MSNBC's Tucker Carlson, will report live from Capitol Hill where Iraq war
protesters from MoveOn.org have gathered today, and we'll hear from Sen. Ben
Nelson (D-NE), who voted against the Democrat's recently proposed pull-out plan
for Iraq.
And we'll have the latest on the scandal surrounding Attorney General Antonio
Gonzales and the White House after eight U.S. attorneys were ousted in a mass
Justice Department purging from Hardball's David Shuster. Today's questions:
will White House officials, including Karl Rove and former WH counsel Harriet
Miers, testify about what happened? And what information will be uncovered
when the latest batch of internal White House emails is released?
Stick around for another live Hardball at 7 PM EST, when we'll hear from:
- Andrew Card, former Bush chief of staff
- Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- NBC's Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski
- Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of
America and author of "Chasing Ghosts"
- Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-IL)
- '08 candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and member of the House Armed
Services Committee
- Time's Baghdad Bureau Chief Bobby Ghosh
For the latest on all of today's political news, go to the best political
website www.politics.msnbc.com, powered by NBC News and the National Journal.
Don't forget to check out NBC's "First Read" http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
and MSNBC.com's political calendar http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14708421/.
Shelby Poduch compiled the "Hardball Briefing" from Washington, D.C.
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