But the only people around right now who are going after Saddam are the Bush gang, whether or not he buys into their rhetoric. And Bush doesn't want a democratic Iraq - he wants to make Gen Tommy Franks its proconsul. A democratic Iraq might be a very inconvenient thing, voting to ally with Iran, or choosing to invest oil revenues in Iraqi development rather than in U.S. Treasury bonds.
So Hitch is signing up with the same national security state that supported Saddam when he was hanging Communists and gassing Iranians, the same one that has for decades preferred Islamic reactionaries to secular leftists, the same one that funded the embryonic Al Qaeda.
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Ah, but you don't understand. The fact that the national security state aided Saddam in the past only doubles our responsibility to support it now! Or something....
Seth
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