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Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., We begin a two-day series of interviews on Iraq: when we should get out and how we should do it.(1.) US Army LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN NAGL. He commands the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, Kansas. He served in Operation Desert Storm and was the operations officer of a tank battalion task force in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He helped author the US Army's Counterinsurgency Field (2.) Former Iraqi government official ALI A. ALLAWI. He served as Minister of Trade and Minister of Defense under the Interim Iraq Governing Council from 2003 to 2004, and then Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005 and 2006. He currently teaches at Oxford and has written The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace.Manual. (3.) Retired British Army GENERAL SIR MICHAEL ROSE. He was best known as the Commander of UN Protection Force in Bosnia in the 1990s. In 2006, he called for the impeachment of Tony Blair for leading England into war in Iraq under false pretenses. (4.) Professor KANAN MAKIYA. He is an Iraqi-born professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He was one of the leading Arab intellectuals who called for the removal of Sadam Hussein and he advised the Bush Administration before the invasion of Iraq. (5.) PETER GALBRAITH is a former US Ambassador to Croatia. He's a Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation. Among his many books are The End of Iraq and After Iraq: Cleaning Up After America's Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., INT. 1: Iraqi dissident writer KANAN MAKIYA. He wrote, under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil, the book "Republic of Fear," about Saddam Hussein's regime. The book was one of the first alarms about the brutality of Hussein's regime. MAKIYA has a new book, "Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World." (W.W. NORTON). In the book he criticizes Arab intellectuals for keeping silent over escalating cruelties in the Arab world. INT. 2: Satirist, radio host, columnist, and one of the creators of and performers in the mock-rock group Spinal Tap, HARRY SHEARER. He also does several voices on "The Simpsons." SHEARER has a new book of the columns he wrote for the Los Angeles Times Magazine. He'll also be appearing tomorrow at The Museum of Television & Radio in New York City, to talk about his work on "Saturday Night Live" (he was on for a while) and his syndicated radio program, "Le Show." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER ATC PROMO).