The Iraq We Left Behind, Is It a Democracy?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In 2011 the US pulled troops out of Iraq, a country it praised as well on the way to democracy. Now Iraq’s ravaged by the worst violence since the height of the conflict.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.6 | The Iraq we left behind. Is it a democracy? |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Barbara Bogave, sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:19.6 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. As Iraq heads into parliamentary elections on Wednesday, the country is |
| 0:25.6 | slipping back into civil war. Dozens of people have died at a campaign rally and polling |
| 0:30.4 | sites, fighting in Umbar provinces destroyed villages and turned tens of thousands of Iraqis out of |
| 0:35.4 | their homes. Will bloodshed and religious strife derail democracy? |
| 0:39.1 | Will this election change anything given Iraq's increasingly authoritarian prime minister? |
| 0:43.6 | Should the U.S. recommit to help stabilize this fledgling democracy |
| 0:47.3 | it withdrew from little more than two years ago? |
| 0:50.3 | Also on today's talking point, an NBA team owner's reputation hits a new low. |
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| 1:31.0 | Just ahead, in 2011, the United States pulled troops out of Iraq, a country it praised |
| 1:35.8 | as well on the way to democracy. |
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