(np) bitchen Hitchens?

[Michael Bailey]

 Joe Allonby wrote:
> I'm still not buying his Iraq War apologies. He seems to take Saddam
> Hussein personally.
>


yeah, there's only one mention of Hans Blix, page 310 or something...

my ratio of investigation to bloviation is as poor as anyone's in my
affinity group (not referring to the p-list of course, this is where I
go to improve myself; my main affinity group is the set of all married
childless middle-aged pacifist well-defended neurotics who have
accomplished staggeringly little but have voluminous happy memories
anyway and a tendency to poor-mouth), but I think I've read that old
Hans Blix had done quite a bit of checking and was purt' near
persuaded of the lack of a case for something that Mr Hitchens seems
ready to accept as uncontestable

or was Hitch basing his support of the bombing on acceptance of
"preemptive" measures?  I'm waiting with bated breath till I
know...but I haven't read that far yet, and the start of the book is
highly relishable...

anybody who could be a Trotskyist in the first place, I mean leaving
aside Kronstadt - let's ponder kidnapping people to make their
relatives serve in his army.  The big thing about Trotsky seems mostly
to be that he wasn't Stalin...