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Celebrating the death of Zarqawi, the President puts his spin on the truth.

Calvin Trillin

June 21, 2006

We’re making progress in Iraq. Bush sings, “Tra-la-la-la, we Have killed Al Qaeda in Iraq’s most vicious thug, Zarqawi.” Some skeptics, though, insist on giving this a different twist: Before this war, Al Qaeda in Iraq did not exist.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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