Two-time Pulitzer prize winning journalist Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War reported from Iraq for the Washington Post. He is of Arab ancestry and fluent in Arabic. He discusses the hopes and anguish of the Iraqi people before and during the war with America.  His memoir, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and Lost Middle East will be published next month. This program was originally recorded in September 2005.

In 2002, at the graduation ceremony at West Point Military Academy, President Bush laid out his argument for preemptive war. Bill Murphy, In A Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002 tells the stories of the first class in a generation to graduate into armed combat.