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Video: Daily Show sees Iraq violence as misplaced appreciation for the US

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Published: Tuesday August 22, 2006

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After a New York Times report that President Bush has expressed frustration that Iraqis have not expressed appreciation for the sacrifices that the United States has made in Iraq, The Daily Show has launched its own investigation.

The Daily Show's Baghdad Bureau Chief, Aasif Mandvi, joined host Jon Stewart to examine the gap between the president's expectations and the behavior of the Iraqi people. Mandvi explains that the violence in Iraq is simply misplaced appreciation for their liberation and continued security. Mandvi says that "as three years have gone by it has become harder and harder to find the right way to say 'thank you.'"