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Since June, I’ve been watching The Al Franken Show on cable TV, on Sundance Channel. The show has provided me with a lot of ideas for blog posts. From Thursday’s show, here’s Canadian journalist Patrick Graham:
Everything in Iraq, for the first year and a half, was run for how it appeared in the States. People talk about Iraqi democracy. Iraqis are voting in large numbers. The problem is American democracy and this debate at home. And everything in Iraq was run, basically, for Bush’s re-election campaign. And you can’t run a war in a complex country — you can’t run a complex country — and an insurgency, when your only real interest is your poll numbers at home. That’s a big problem.
Graham spent a lot of time talking to insurgents in Iraq. He wrote about it in Harper’s magazine, in an article called “Beyond Fallujah.”
Friday night’s Franken Show was the last one that will be carried on Sundance Channel. If this blog is to survive, I may have to start making stuff up.
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