"Early last month a senior Bush administration official, mentioning the writers Christopher Hitchens and William Shawcross, mused to The Telegraph: 'I wonder if there is an opening into the European Left and we ought to be exploiting that?'
"Last week, in a private and unpublicised lecture at the White House, Hitchens, a former Trotskyite who has called for Henry Kissinger to be indicted as a war criminal, addressed officials about the moral imperative to unseat Saddam Hussein.
"Hitchens, a long-time resident of Washington who is now a contributing editor for Vanity Fair as well as a Daily Mirror columnist, is no fan of Mr Bush but has argued trenchantly that the anti-war Left is helping to preserve a 'fascist regime'."
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