<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <P class=story>Our boy's going places. Love the "no fan of Mr. Bush." Fact checker, please?</P> <P class=story>"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?'</P> <P class=story>"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.</P> <P class=story>"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'."</P></DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><<A href="http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/20/wdip220.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/20/ixnewstop.html">Click here: Telegraph | News | Cause unites Britain's Left and US Right</A>> </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>DP</DIV></BODY></HTML>