Reply #2: The host also asked about the interest in the convention back

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in the ME given that the American networks had decided that no one was interested here...
He said that there is keen interest there and that people are waiting to see what Bush says about "the future." I bet they are VERY interested in that....but I would also wager that they are skeptical as hell about anything Bush says. (and understandably so, not just because of recent events but because of all the past history outlined in Rashid Khaladi's Resurrecting Empire....which is depressing the hell out of me....)