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An Analysis of the War by the Newly Rehabilitated Trent Lott

Now here's a guy who knows whereof he speaks.

Calvin Trillin

November 30, 2006

If we didn’t have ’em tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq, they’d be, you know, somewhere else– in England, or even right here.    –Senator Trent Lott on Fox News

Apparently, he means it’s simply grand We didn’t win and leave, as we had planned, Since we can count on Bush–that he’ll endeavor To keep those people tied down there forever. In other words, as far as Lott can tell, This war is really going very well. Lucky us.

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


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