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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I don't really
have a horse in this race, since Hitchens no longer appears in the Evening
Standard, and I don't read the Nation, but is the resignation of a newspaper
columnist really an appropriate occasion for people being so bloody nasty? It
strikes me that if the guy has a drinking problem, or if he's had a breakdown,
it's pretty bad taste to be gloating about it; if he hasn't, it's probably
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>--uhm, we're
talking about a writer who slandered the holy hell out of people like Noam
Chomsky in the aftermath of 911 with claims that he and others like him
supported Al Qaeda as a liberating force...yada yada yada...</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The nervous
breakdown comment was simply in jest, i.e. what the hell is going on with this
guy that he is parroting propaganda about Al Qaeda and Saddam being bed buddies
in any sense of the word or that Atta actually was in Czech at that time,
something that seems highly suspect now. But when you're desperate as Bush to
bomb the hell out of Bagdhad...you'll come up with anything...much like Condi
and Rumsfeld do everyday...</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>If I'm to
believe Condi and Rums on this, then I'm also to believe them when they tell us
about the 'nuclear' threat of Saddam....It's called war propaganda...they'll be
floating out incubator babies soon enough...sad thing will be Hitchens will be
castigating them for not doing it sooner...."I interviewed the lady who saw the
babies gasping their last horrified gasps on the floor as the Iraqi soldiers
violated the honor of American teenage girls...why is she being
Ignored!!"</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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