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

Stand Down!

The blog that I read concerned itself mostly with President Bush’s poor leadership and choices that are being made concerning the War in Iraq. The tone of these blogs is generally solemn and implies that there is not going to be a good outcome of this war. They come off as anti-government. I would assume that the authors of this article would lean towards a democratic vote in the next presidential election, since they seem so antiwar and the plans that John McCain has include continuing to send troops into Iraq. The authors sympathize with Iraqi citizens and the fact that their country is in ruins. They blame George Bush for this.

Reading the blog made me frustrated that our president is in control of this war and is continuing to push troops into the defeated country. It makes me further oppose the troop surge and the war.

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