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This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

The War

Just as many of the posts I have read. I do not have any close connection to the war. The closest I have is a friend who is currently becoming a Marine and is going for intelligence. He completed boot camp this summer and now is doing his I guess you can say schooling of becoming a Marine intelligence personnel. He has not gone anywhere yet and has not done any fighting. He occasionally needs the booster just stick with it you've been wanting to do this since you where little but everyone needs that sometimes when things get tough. As far as the war goes I don't really follow it at all. I hear about it on the local news sometimes when I go home like this happen here, another suicide bomb happened there, but other then that I tend to not follow it. I hear about it on The Daily Show with John Stewart and the Colbert Report with Steven Colbert when they are making fun of the people that said it was only going to last a few months but really its been going on for five years.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=4600258&page=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/washington/06military.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

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