Christopher Hitchens defending Peerage given Rushdie

[RgrF]

Sir Salman under attack from Torys.

[cbelt3]

The man is an international treasure.

[pdq]

Not my idea of treasure:

Hitchens employed the term "Islamofascist" and supported the Iraq War, causing his critics to consider him a "neoconservative"…In 2004, Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Iraq convinced him that he was "on the same side as the neo-conservatives" when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues, and characterized himself as an unqualified "supporter of Paul Wolfowitz."[!]

…Around this time, he befriended the Iraqi dissident and businessman Ahmed Chalabi.[!!]

Hitchens argued the case for the Iraq War in a 2003 collection of essays entitled A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, and participated in public debates on the topic with George Galloway,[84] Scott Ritter,[85] and his brother Peter Hitchens.[86] In its obituary of Hitchens, The Economist wrote that, "on the most consequential political issue of the last decade of his life, the bull[stuff] got him."[87]

Indeed.

[RgrF]

So Hitch bought the passel of lies sold by the US - cancel him!

[mrbigstuff]

RgrF wrote:
So Hitch bought the passel of lies sold by the US - cancel him!

I thought he had been posthumously cancelled.