Getting Out of Iraq - Peter Galbraith December 2, 2008

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/06/Peter_W_Galbraith_From_Turkey_to_Iran

Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith offers solutions to minimize damage during a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

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A leading authority on Iraq, Ambassador Peter Galbraith joins the Council for a discussion on the unintended consequences of the war in Iraq and what the next US administration should do in the Middle East.

Having worked on Iraq for more than 25 years, he is responsible for uncovering and documenting the start of Saddam Hussein's genocide against the Kurds and was with Kurdish rebels during their 1991 uprising.

Since 2003, Galbraith has made more than twenty trips to Iraq, and is the architect of the partition plan that is considered the main alternative to President Bush's Iraq strategy - World Affairs Council of Northern California

Amb. Peter W. Galbraith, one of America's leading authorities on Iraq, has been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic turning points for the country: the Iraq-Iran War, the Kurdish genocide, the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing of Iraq's constitutions. In his new book, The End of Iraq, he offers many firsthand observations of the men who are now Iraq's leaders. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred and what will happen. The End of Iraq describes America's failed strategy toward that country and what must be done now.