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Friday, September 17, 2004 Notes and Musings Operation Ohio continues to rock. We're getting written up in a bunch of news sources including Columbus Alive, which should help build attendance at the events and build our phone list of students in Ohio and Florida who would like to receive a reminder phone call from an author on November 2nd. Michael Cunningham has joined the list of authors making phone calls. Talking Points Memo has an excellent post outlining the differences between what the administration says is happening in Iraq, and what government analysts say is happening in Iraq. I remember in the beginning of this war I had a conversation with Robert Polhemus, the head of the Stanford English Department, and I said to him that I hoped Bush was right and I was wrong and that if I turned out to be wrong about this war I was going to vote for Bush in 2004. I still wish I was wrong, and that things had worked out better in Iraq. I'd much rather have peace in the Middle East than not, no matter who was in office. But things haven't worked out that way. I was reading another article this morning about Kerry flip-flopping on Iraq and I found myself thinking, well, at least he's right half of the time. Which is a pretty serious improvement when you look at the incredible mess over there. posted by Stephen Elliott 9:46 AM | link | |
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