<!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>From a Guardian review by Paul Theroux:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Last year, well before the Iraq war, [Hunter S.] Thompson wrote: 'We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. George W Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world.' </DIV> <DIV> <P>"That is included in his new book, along with another prescient piece, written on September 12 2001, in which he predicted 'a religious war, a sort of Christian jihad, fuelled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerrilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines. We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once.' " </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2><</FONT><A href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,956891,00.html">http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,956891,00.html</A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></P> <P>DP</P></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>