Welcome...and initial guidelines...

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.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Blogging Baghdad

This post seems as though they are trying to show the other side of what is happening over in Iraq. There is a one blog that goes on to talk about the Iraqi forces on the American side and how many problems are occuring for them. These people believe that the Iraqi soldires don't have the means to have a successful army. One of the bases that the Iraqi soldires are residing in right now is very broken down and run down. Most of the electric doesn't work and the building is literally falling down. The Iraqi army is also complaining that they have no ammunition and the guns they have are broken. Then another blogger wrote about family living in Iraq and about the worries the mother of the family has to go through becasue she lives in dangerous territory. She Fears that her husband who is a trasporter for a hotel and her children who just regularly attend school are in much danger. The tone of all these blogs looks to me as sympathetic to the Iraqi people who are just enduring these horrible times.

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