>Not a parody, I'm afraid.
>
><<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081707/>http://slate.msn.com/id/2081707/>
>
>Straw men and women set up and mowed down in a tidy fashion. Plus,
>no mention of Halliburton's (among other US-connected companies)
>involvement with Saddam during the 90s, under UN cover, and
>oftentimes through a German company front. I think Cheney and gang
>scored something like $73 million during this period, but that's ok,
>sez Hitch, 'cause you're either for Halliburton or for Saddam, and
>there's no middle ground, and if you opposed the war you don't have
>a right to speak about it now anyway, as he told me privately a
>couple weeks ago.
The hell with him. He's become a total yahoo:
>I think we can be sure that the contract would not have gone to some
>windmill-power concern run by Naomi Klein or the anti-Starbucks
>Seattle coalition, in the hope of just blowing out the flames or of
>extinguishing them with Buddhist mantras.
How long until he gets an SUV with a gun rack?
Doug