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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.

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

In the Media

Two media reports that I found contrasted in style and information. I compared the media reports from ABC News and Saturday Night Live on NBC. 
ABC News talked about how we the United States CIA are now planning a secret operation to disable the Iranian government. President Bush thinks it is now time to put pressure on Iran to stop the enrichment program of nuclear devices and to end the aid to insurgents. This whole report literally makes me just laugh out loud, considering this is supposibly a "secret operation" which was now just broadcasted over the Internet and possibly on television through ABC. What do we think the people over in Iran cannot see this? I am pretty sure they can so well I guess the secret is out. 
In the Saturday Night Live skit I watched called "Bush's address", it was "President Bush" talking about his trips to India and Iran, and his surprise trip to Pakistan. One joke that was made was about Bush's surprise trip to Pakistan. The joke was that if the people of Pakistan knew about his trip they would of all came out to thank him for fixing their government.
Well I guess we fixed the government too much becausenow we are going back to unfix it. The two media reports do not really contrast my opinion of the was but add to my question of before, why we are over fighting to begin with? Why are we doing so much for everyone else but the United States? I feel that we are making things worse instead of better for ourselves.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday_night_live/video/play.shtml?mea=229141
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter

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