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Tonight on Hardball, would redeploying U.S. troops lead to overwhelming
civilian hardships in Iraq? Can a withdrawal there be compared to U.S. troops
leaving Vietnam? That's the comparison President Bush made while making his
case for staying in Iraq earlier today, saying "one unmistakable legacy of
Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of
innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like
'boat people,' 're-education camps' and 'killing fields."
Hardball's David Shuster will have the latest on the president's comparison
this morning, and we'll hear from former White House Press Secretary Ari
Fleischer, now with a pro-war pressure group called Freedom's Watch, and get
reaction from Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America.
Then, who should be held responsible for crimes committed by illegal
immigrants? After three young people were killed in a schoolyard slaying -
with the illegal immigrants the prime suspects - some of the '08 candidates are
joining the debate and laying blame on the city leaders of Newark, NJ, where
the crime happened. We'll talk about it with Chris Simcox, Minutemen
president, from Phoenix and immigration attorney Susan Church.
Plus, was Michelle Obama taking a backhanded swipe at Sen. Hillary Clinton with
this line in Iowa last week: "...if you can't run your own house, you certainly
can't run the White House." That's tonight's Hardball Debate with Amy Goodman
from Democracy Now and the American Spectator's Bob Tyrell.
And don't miss today's big political five - the stories everyone inside and
outside the Beltway is talking about - and later in the show all the day's hot
topics with the Hardball Panel - Salon's Joan Walsh, San Diego Union Tribune
columnist Ruben Navarette, and Matt Continetti from The Weekly Standard.
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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