Lord Haw Haw in his cups

Lord Hitchens of Baghdad may be a recovering Imperialist in the tradition of Rudyard Kipling. The main difference being Kipling could write. The Lord Haw Haw for the criminal Bush terror regime now claims to be interested in consistancy in arguing point's of view...'...It was said even then that the attack would fail, because (remember?) if you killed Osama Bin Laden, then a thousand more would rise up to take his place. This line soon mutated into, "No war on Iraq: It's a distraction from the hunt for Bin Laden." What a good thing it is that the Bush administration didn't exaggerate by much, because if it had, millions of people would now be saying that they couldn't think of any reason of their own why the Taliban should have been removed...'

At least that's what it SOUNDs like. Hitchens last few efforts for SLATE have been increasing incoherent ( Tired and emotional? )
Still - I take from the above that Hitchens has a new found interest in lucid, linear and coherent argument on serious matters.

Perhaps then Christopher can explain , and it should be easy from his priviliged ' insider' if not ' inbedded' status, the (bureaucratic or otherwise) reasons for invading SW Asia?

It started out as WMD's didn't it?

So what is it now?

Making the world safe for open bars in all Arab places? Regime change? Finding the broom of the wicked witch? Someone as wise and informed as Christopher should find this question a snap but it puzzles me...and it seems to puzzle more and more.
Everyday the reality based community grows while the friends of Lord Haw Haw hunker in the bunker.
At least he has plenty of aneasthetic's on hand from the sound of it.
Were Hitchens a real journalist...one who actually READ what he freely stole from Sy Hersh he might be running around with his hair on fire warning us about the new dangers to Iraq's neighbor's and projected massive increases in secret bombing runs.
Instead he is swilling down the free SLATE fire water like there is no tomorrow. Then again there was no yesterday for this hopeless drunk so I guess that makes sense.
The president may even be living vicariously through Hitchens...that is if he isn't sneaking a snifter or three himself ...with a pretzel chaser.
The Exxon Valdez ran aground with a drunken sot as captain didn't it?
That would sure explain a lot.
Chris's favourite cocktail?
I hear it's a ' Long Island tea' with a splash of light sweet crude...and it's called a ' Turd Blossom' I believe.