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On Winning the War and Losing the Alerts

We're fighting terror in Iraq, Bush says, So we won't have to fight these guys right here. Then why the orange alerts and canceled flights

Calvin Trillin

January 8, 2004

We’re fighting terror in Iraq, Bush says, So we won’t have to fight these guys right here. Then why the orange alerts and canceled flights That leave the nation shaky-legged with fear?

No matter. Voters trust the GOP To battle terror, so the polls have said. Is orange what Supreme Commander Rove Believes will turn election maps all red?

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


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