----- Original Message ----- From: <RangerCat67 at aol.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: Hitchens: Hawks in the dovecote
> http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,780386,00.html
>
> An excerpt:
>
> "What the Iraqi and Kurdish democrats would like is American aid for and
> endorsement of their own efforts to replace the regime. And what they fear is
> what I also fear - a heavy-handed US attack which results in an Iraqi puppet
> government that is designed to placate the Saudis and the Turks. That, it
> seems to me, is where a principled critique of the war-planning might begin.
> But it's depressing to see the status quo Left preferring to parrot the
> arguments of pacifist realpolitik."
>
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See, fiction in action..............Just how does Hitch know the prerogatives of the Iraqi and Kurdish democrats? Do they number more than a 1,000 or 100 or 100,000? Where are his figures, connections etc.?
Ian