At his April 2007 press conference in the Green Zone in Iraq, Senator John McCain indicated that he was able to walk freely through a marketplace in Baghdad and that this was something that he hadn't been able to do on previous visits. Here's the transcript:
Q Senator McCain, I just read on the Internet that you said there are areas in Baghdad that you can walk around freely.
SEN. MCCAIN: Yeah, I just was -- came from one.
Q Pardon me?
SEN. MCCAIN: I just came from one.
Q Yeah. Which areas would that be?
But CNN's Michael Ware pointed out later that Americans had always been able to walk though the marketplaces of Baghdad -- when dressed in flak gear and accompanied by air support and heavy artillery as McCain had been.
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