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A Word to George Bush On the Occasion of His Mentioning That Iraq Was Not Responsible for the Attacks on 9/11

You tell us, with a casual by-the-way, Iraq was not behind that awful day, As if we'd never heard your staff and you Implying just the opposite was true.

Calvin Trillin

September 25, 2003

You tell us, with a casual by-the-way, Iraq was not behind that awful day, As if we’d never heard your staff and you Implying just the opposite was true. The web must say, or maybe Lexis-Nexis, If chutzpa is a word they use in Texas.

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


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