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On John McCain’s Much-Ridiculed Attempt to Use His Shorja Market Visit as Proof That Baghdad Is Being Pacified

McCain bought himself trouble in his visit to Baghdad.

Calvin Trillin

April 12, 2007

He said he browsed, but this he didn’t say: Security enclosed him in a bubble. He might have chosen vases or a rug. Instead, he bought himself a peck of trouble.

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


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