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November 15, 2005

Hacktacular Chris Hitchens

Columnist and writer Christopher Hitchens is a very articulate, very intelligent guy. He's also a Bush apologist of epic proportions.

His latest effort to dig the mess in Iraq out of Bush's hole and put it somewhere else...anywhere else is an homage to the man's dedication to his boy:

Let us suppose, then, that we can find a senator who voted for the 1998 act to remove Saddam Hussein yet did not anticipate that it might entail the use of force, and who later voted for the 2002 resolution and did not appreciate that the authorization of force would entail the removal of Saddam Hussein! Would this senator kindly stand up and take a bow? He or she embodies all the moral and intellectual force of the anti-war movement. And don't be bashful, ladies and gentlemen of the "shocked, shocked" faction, we already know who you are.

So if a Senator voted in 1998 based on intelligence we had at that time for this Act..it therefore stands to reason that four years later when they were handed cherrypicked intelligence by the Bush Administration, they should have known what they were getting into?

C'mon Hitch. You know better than this. Handing the Senate cherrypicked intelligence to get them to agree to give the President authorization for war isn't justified. Ever. Even if the Senate agreed four years earlier that Saddam had to go based on intelligence that was current at that time. This is a ridiculous argument.

I realize that sometimes Bush apologists have to really bendover backwards to squirrel themselves into looking like they've got a reasonable position. But jeez...Hitchens is having twist himself into a Gordian Knot to justify himself.

It's disheartening to see such a bright guy have to stoop so low.

Posted by Carla at November 15, 2005 03:12 PM