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Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq Study Group report (good stuff)
Hugh Hewitt.com ^ | 12/6/06 | Hugh Hewitt / Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 12/07/2006 8:28:35 AM PST by Valin

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1 posted on 12/07/2006 8:28:37 AM PST by Valin
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To: Valin

The world is laughing at us today.


2 posted on 12/07/2006 8:29:25 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Valin

bump for after Dubya


3 posted on 12/07/2006 8:29:41 AM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: Valin
Well, I don’t particularly mind being snubbed by someone like James Baker, let alone Mr. Lee Hamilton

Pwnd!

4 posted on 12/07/2006 8:30:33 AM PST by dirtboy (Objects in tagline are closer than they appear)
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To: Valin

bump


5 posted on 12/07/2006 8:32:04 AM PST by Citizen Soldier
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To: Valin
Baker and Bush 41 sold out the Iraqis last time, and they are committed to that strategy.

However many millions die as a result, at least Baker is secure in his realism.

6 posted on 12/07/2006 8:33:17 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Crusades were indigenous peoples' counter-attacks against imperialist foreign Muslim invaders)
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To: Valin

Hitchens is aware that he and his like will be the first to kiss the sword if the mullahs win. They are free to live in a Christian country without fear but that changes when the sides change.

It's too bad that more "infidels" can't see this. They are too busy being worried about "Christmas".


7 posted on 12/07/2006 8:33:55 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Valin
I like that reference to the Hoare-Laval agreement. I think it was selling out the Ethiopians to appease the Italians and when it leaked out, the subsequent public outcry drove the men who concocted it from office. It was too much even for decadent democracies to stomach.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

8 posted on 12/07/2006 8:36:51 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Valin

The audio version:

http://www.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=5


9 posted on 12/07/2006 8:36:57 AM PST by angkor
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To: Brad Cloven

This country voted for the next 9-11 on 11-7. They don't realize it, but this type of report is exactly the type of thing which will enable it by emboldening the terrorists.


10 posted on 12/07/2006 8:38:26 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: dfwgator; All

The key to understanding the benefit of this to the USA and people in Iraq, is to look at some of the author's names:

"...Mark Danner of the New York Review of Books, Thomas Friedman, Leslie Gelb, Sandy Berger, Anthony Lake, Ken Pollack, Thomas Ricks and George Will..."

That, and looking at the people who enthusiastically applaud this document...Liberals, Democrats, and the "Will Bush Listen" Media.

That tells you all you need to know.


11 posted on 12/07/2006 8:40:34 AM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: Brad Cloven
We sold out the Hungarian revolution in 1956. We've sold out I don't know how many countries since then. The first Iraq war, we told them in Baghdad to rise up against Saddam and we'd back them. Then we backed out. I don't find it surprising that a good portion of the world doesn't trust us.

Carolyn

12 posted on 12/07/2006 8:40:58 AM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: Valin



Too upset to respond, so I'll just bump.


13 posted on 12/07/2006 8:41:14 AM PST by kalee (I have taken the pledge... I will no longer read homeschooling or breastfeeding threads on FR.)
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To: Valin

Sounds like all the Surrendercrats and Appeasacans got together and issued a bi-partisan report. Besides enheartening our enemies, this crap can only demoralize our own troops. Who want's to risk dying for a mission when know you are being sold out in Washington?


14 posted on 12/07/2006 8:42:44 AM PST by Hugin
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To: Valin
Hitchen is right, of course, but why wasn't he making a great deal of noise B-E-F-O-R-E this ridiculous plan was unveiled??? Everyone has known we have been in trouble for some time because of the media and the liberals and all of their hollering!

Nancee

15 posted on 12/07/2006 8:44:55 AM PST by Nancee
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marking


16 posted on 12/07/2006 8:44:55 AM PST by eureka! (May the voters see the light next time.....)
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To: goldstategop
From Wiki...

He was, however, most famous for his role as Foreign Secretary in 1935, when he had to deal with the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Together with French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, he developed the so-called Hoare-Laval Agreement, which would have granted Italy considerable territorial concessions in Ethiopia, and put the rump of Ethiopia under Italian hegemony. The public uproar against this apparent sell-out of the Ethiopians led to Hoare's resignation as Foreign Secretary at the end of the year. His successor was Anthony Eden. When Eden had his first audience with King George V, the King is said to have remarked "No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris."
17 posted on 12/07/2006 8:46:42 AM PST by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: Brad Cloven

Baker's an Arabist, he hardly went into this thing objectively.


18 posted on 12/07/2006 8:46:57 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Nancee
Hitchen is right, of course, but why wasn't he making a great deal of noise B-E-F-O-R-E this ridiculous plan was unveiled???

Histchins has supported this war (and its greater ramifications) for years.

He's not the one you should be pissed at.

19 posted on 12/07/2006 8:48:00 AM PST by Wormwood (Proud Goldwater Republican ( i.e. persona non grata))
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To: Valin

" very long, drawn out negotiations of Iraq."
I believe he meant Iran. Right?


20 posted on 12/07/2006 8:48:22 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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