HITCHENS: SADDAM HIDES LIKE A RAT IN A SEWER

Daily Mirror (U.K.) ^ | 04/10/03 | Christopher Hitchens

[lsee]

This rat resents the comparison...

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[justshutupandtakeit]

Chris Hitchins alert.

[polemikos]

SADDAM HIDES LIKE A RAT IN A SEWER

SADDAM IS BEING EATEN BY A RAT IN A SEWER

[Billthedrill]

Hitchens BTT. He's going to be fun for quite awhile - he has a long memory for those who have been throwing knives at him for the last few months, and a pen dipped in vitriol.

[Defiant]

I wonder when the next such peace march is supposed to be? I really must remember to pencil it in to my calendar, and try and go along. A few weeks ago, the organisers were telling me that there would be heaps and heaps of slaughtered Iraqi civilians, and massive casualties among Coalition troops.

I think there's one scheduled for the 12th. I'm going to take my signs:

I'm With Stupid=>
Wankers Opposing War! (WOW!)
A Prison for Every Child
I Miss Saddam
OK, No Wars After This One

[daviddennis]

Yep, International Answer is coming up with rallies in NYC, DC and LA on 12 April.

I will be there. I think it will be my last chance for a while to do rally video ... if, of course, anyone shows up.

Incidentally, International ANSWER is featuring our old pal Fisk as justification for the rallies to continue.

D

[risk]

Hitchens ping.

Soon, they will be strolling wide-eyed through the colossal, vulgar palaces that he erected with the sweat of their labour, while pretending that the sanctions were the cause of their misery. These people were evidently not so easily fooled.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Hitchens is one of the handful of media Lefties with intellectual rigor and integrity.

[risk]

I think he's moved from left to center/right, but that's just my impression. He made a funny comment about Marx actually being for less government, and how he found that while those were his own goals all along, he couldn't abide by the remaining idealogues' nonsense knowing what he knows now.

His swing to the right is probably part of a movement. I'm optimistic, because it's a sign of vitality in our civilization that people can change their minds in the right direction.

[Eva]

I read an article on Front Page that Hitchens wrote, explaining his support of the war in Iraq as a result of work that he has been doing in Northern Iraq for the past three or four years. He said that he could not witness what he saw there and oppose the removal of Saddam Hussein.
He was thoroughly disgusted with his comrades on the left for their purposeful blindness to the ruthlessness of the Saddam regime. They weren't his words, but that was the idea.

[bruinbirdman]

Hitchens is a socialist idealist. He has found his niche (an entertaining and brilliant communicator) and gets his gigs. He gets his message out as long as he claims existing socialist governments and dictatorships are impure.

His admitted ideology remains: "Pure socialism is good. We just don't find it anywhere, yet."

yitbos

[risk]

It may have started even earlier. He wrote a book For the Sake of Argument which among other people, attacked Clinton, in 1993; he also wrote No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton in 1999.

Argument criticizes Bush sr. for not finishing off Hussein.

[McGavin999]

I hope the coalition is documenting things like the opening of the children's prison, the prison outside of Baghdad (I haven't seen anything on this yet) and other torture chambers. Once Iraqi TV gets back on the air, programs should be aired showing these and the palaces and the warehouses full of food that was never distributed.

The "Arab Street" should be made to look upon these truths, not by us but by the Iraqis themselves.

Self determination can only flourish in the light of truth, without that it can not survive. I hope the Iraqi people will understand that.

[risk]

Hitchens is a socialist idealist.

I'd like to see some credible citations to back up your implied claim that he's still on the left. He's adamant about having people in the USA vote for Bush in 2004.

[eureka!]

bttt

[Amelia]

Hitchens ping.

Arkie, I must be getting dyslexic...I read your post to me yesterday as "he's my favorite columnist" rather than "he's my favorite communist"!

[Arkie2]

LOL! George Will is my favorite columnist.

[expatpat]

I think he's more to the right than that, bruin (hi, again, BTW). Most socialists are too emotionally involved to change, but I think Hitchens is more analytical/logical than emotional, and has changed.