This week on War News Radio, we investigate a few of the paths that lead young men and women to Iraq. Reporter Tevye Kelman tries to sign up at a recruiting station in Philadelphia.

Also, John Williams talks to Individual Ready Reservists who never expected to get called up for duty.

Democratic journalist Seymour Hersh and conservative former weapons inspector Scott Ritter speak about the violence they forsee in Iraq’s future, and one young Iraqi man tells Wren Elhai about the life he’s hoping to have in Warsaw.

These stories, plus the week’s news, from War News Radio.

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This week on War News Radio, Iraq most likely has a constitution, but what next? Sunni politician Adnan Pachachi gives WNR his prediction of key issues for the December elections.

Is instability spreading to Iraq’s neighbors? Reuben Heyman-Kantor gets an international perspective on new friction between Syria and the U.S.

Condoleezza Rice testifies about US military plans for Iraq, and reporter Ben Firestone takes a look at what the senate had to say in response.

Then, the Senate gets a dismal progress report on economic reconstruction in Iraq, and reporter Elizabeth Wright examines what’s been left undone.

These stories, plus the week’s news, from War News Radio.

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This week on War News Radio, Reuben Heyman-Kantor looks into whether or not the U.S. is building permanent military bases in Iraq.

Aaron Strong also examines the status of women’s rights in Kurdistan. Are women in the Kurdish north of Iraq really better off than their Arab counterparts?

And, in a new edition of Iraq 101, Anne Kolker puts Saddam Hussein’s upcoming trial into context.

These stories, plus an update on the constitutional referendum, from War News Radio.

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We the people of Iraq, newly arisen from our disasters and looking with confidence to the future through a democratic, federal, republican system, are determined – men and women, old and young – to respect the rule of law, reject the policy of aggression, pay attention to women and their rights, the elderly and their cares, the children and their affairs, spread the culture of diversity and defuse terrorism. – from the preamble of the proposed Iraqi constitution (AP translation)

This week, a War News Radio special on the Iraqi constitution. First, Hansi Lo Wang takes a looks at this week’s efforts to distribute five million copies of the document. He gets the official story from the UN, and the unofficial story from citizens in Baghdad.

Then, Eva Barboni asks three experts to explain what works and what doesn’t in the proposed constitution. It is a document very open to interpretation, and John Turner, Juan Cole, and Brendan O’Leary have very different opinions about who the constitution puts in power, and how it should be read.

These stories, plus the week’s news, from War News Radio.

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