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	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Christopher Hitchens: The ICC or the Rome statute as it is known colloquially, is quite correctly not retroactive.
		Christopher Hitchens: The owner of the pharmaceutical plant in Sudan is bringing a civil suit in DC which will establish the deception of the public, and the damage to Sudan, which was involved in Clinton's dog-wagging.
		Christopher Hitchens: The ICC is not retroactive in its jurisdiction, but it does reinforce the increasingly solid international consensus - vide House of Lords and Pinochet - that there is no immunity for crimes committed for alleged reasons of state.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/00/world_hitchens0208.htm (2094 words)

	Christopher Hitchens and the Issue of Faith
		Christopher Hitchens, observed one critic recently, is a foul-mouthed man of little faith obsessed with homosexuality.
		Hitchens caused a stir a while back when he came out in support of the Bush administration’s war on terror, leaving his long-time leftist allies angry and bemused, or some combination of both.
		Chesterton and Malcolm Muggeridge, who were Hitchens sorts in their early years, found themselves circling always back to the realization that truth emerged not from the hustle and bustle of human beings caught in the material web, but from words – words spoken 2000 years ago.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article3253.html (1599 words)

	Amazon.ca: Why Orwell Matters: Books: Christopher Hitchens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Furthermore, Hitchens astoundingly attempts to apologize for Orwell by surmising that he “liked and desired the ‘feminine’ but was somewhat put on his guard by the ‘female’,” which to me seems exactly the point.
		But Hitchens’ unwillingness to allow George Orwell his failings, his unwillingness to allow Orwell his lost battles—with homophobia, with sexism, with his few reactionary veins—in short, Hitchens’ unwillingness to allow Orwell his flawed humanity, is itself a flaw that marks this book as Hitchens’ least successful venture.
		Hitchens is trying to do the same, I think, but he's reached a level in his own thinking that is over the heads of most people and he needs to come back down - not dumb it down, just remember the simplicity that Orwell weaved his terrific tales and essays with.
	www.amazon.ca /Why-Orwell-Matters-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/0465030491 (2121 words)

	How the left became irrelevant - Salon
		Christopher Hitchens talks about his beef with the Nation, the "filthy menace" of Saddam Hussein, and how the left ceded its moral credibility by opposing the war against Islamic fascism.
		Hitchens' sentiments were no doubt heartfelt, but it is difficult to imagine that he is anything but delighted with the controversy he has provoked.
		Though it is a risk to summarize Hitchens' carefully nuanced opinions, it is fair to say that he sees in the left's reaction to Sept. 11 a failure to understand a profound change in world relations -- a failure that makes the left irrelevant.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2002/10/29/hitchens/index.html (1260 words)

	Christopher Hitchens
		Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, England) is a journalist, author, critic, and bane of the working class.
		Hitchens is well-known for his disheveled appearance and love of drink and cigarettes, as well as his iconoclastic political views.
		Hitchens was deeply shocked by the fatwa (2/14/1989) against his longtime friend Salman Rushdie and he became increasingly concerned by the dangers of what he called theocratic fascism or fascism with an Islamic face: radical Islamists who supported the fatwa against Rushdie and seemed to desire the recreation of the medieval Caliphate.
	christopher-hitchens.mindbit.com (1623 words)

	Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq Occupation
		CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Well, I'll phrase that as I may as part of a reply to Tariq who said that it was only as a result of the resistance that Iraqi civilians or democratic politicians opened their mouths.
		CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Well, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is condemned by international law, and the people who resist it are not by that condemnation entitled to use any methods that they like, but they are entitled to resist.
		CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: We are going to have an election, which the resistance is not calling for.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles9/DN_Ali-Hitchens.htm (4814 words)

	Event Archive: A Debate on Iraq - Commonwealth Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christopher Hitchens: I'll begin with a term that everybody knows: "no-fly zone," the practice by which Anglo-American and formerly French aircraft prevent Saddam Hussein from operating against the Shi'a or the Kurds.
		Hitchens: We can't know everything in advance any more than the people who urge caution upon us can be sure that their policy would not lead, as it has so far, to calamity.
		Christopher has described the sorry history of 1991, when U.S. troops stood by and essentially watched Saddam Hussein massacre tens of thousands of Shi'a in the south and Kurds in the north.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/03/03-01hitchensdanner-debate.html (4026 words)

	Interview with Christopher Hitchens
		Hitchens: The time and place when I came to political awareness, which was in the early mid-1960s in England, the governing Establishment was that of the Labour Party in its most corrupt and opportunist form (and in Washington, which we all understood as the real capital) it was that of the Democratic machine of LBJ.
		Hitchens: The last time that I consciously wrote anything to “save the honor of the Left,” as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton.
		Hitchens: There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence.
	hnn.us /articles/1881.html (3903 words)

	Informed Comment
		Hitchens wants to splash my private mail all over the internet against my will, as though he were himself an agent of the Bush Administration's electronic spying on the private conversations of Americans, I'm glad to share the message that encapsulates the results of our deliberations at Gulf2000.
		Hitchens is and has been in a downward spiral for years, even in his better years his iconoclastic brilliance served only one purpose...furthering the income of Hitchens.
		Hitchens has fallen down the drain from too much drink and hubris so he would be a non-entity if he wasn't adopted as the bastard darling of the right.
	www.juancole.com /2006/05/hitchens-hacker-and-hitchens.html (10532 words)

	NPR : On Contrariness and Christopher Hitchens
		Hitchens had started to travel to Sarajevo where he witnessed the relentless siege of the city.
		Also during this time, Hitchens began to notice that many of those who shared his views were intellectuals and academics who would become famous less than a decade later: the so-called neo-conservatives.
		Hitchens began to cultivate friendships with some of the most prominent figures in the movement, most notably, Paul Wolfowitz and Ahmed Chalabi.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5500721 (1043 words)

	Pakistan Facts - Christopher Hitchens
		Despite his personal tragedies, Hitchens made a name for himself in the US with his piercing wit and an "all that glitters is not gold" philosophy.
		Hitchens: The phrase that hit me, and once it had hit me I couldn't stop feeling the bruise, and the repeated falling of the blow on the bruise, was this - and it comes actually from the Declaration of Independence - it was the pursuit of happiness.
		Hitchens: No but it's in the highest degree naive to say this is the occasion for that review, because there is no amendment to American foreign policy that would appease people who don't think that Afghanistan is yet fundamentalist enough as a society.
	www.pakistan-facts.com /staticpages/index.php?page=20030112161157422 (1415 words)

	Christopher Hitchens - Salon
		As Iraq deteriorates, some born-again hawks like Christopher Hitchens are still waving their sabers -- but others are skulking toward the rear.
		Christopher Hitchens called me "cousin" and proclaimed that "we love each other." Then he turned on me in a last-minute gambit to convict the president.
		Christopher Hitchens, Malcolm Hoenlein and other experts debate whether his trip made a difference.
	dir.salon.com /topics/christopher_hitchens/index.html (367 words)

	Christopher Hitchens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hitchens did use the term "Islamic Fascism" for an article he wrote for The Nation, shortly after 9/11 (although the phrase is used earlier than that, e.g., in The Washington Post on 13 January 1979; it also appears to have been used by secularists in Turkey and Afghanistan to describe their opponents).
		Hitchens argued that the choice in Yugoslavia was between what he perceived as multi-ethnic plural democracy in Bosnia and fascist, religiously inspired ethnic cleansing driven by Slobodan Milošević and that defending multi-ethnic democracy was morally essential and of far greater importance than any leftish concerns about a ‘new imperialism’.
		Hitchens debated actor Charlton Heston on CNN in early February 1991 on this topic; part of the debate was described in the Toronto Star: "Heston was simply no match for Hitchens, who has written brilliantly on the forces leading to war in the Persian Gulf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Hitchens (4925 words)

	The Purest Neocon
		Hitchens can be sensitive about his past—he is quite angry with his brother Peter for letting us know that Christopher used to joke about not caring “if the Red Army waters its horses in Hendon”—but there can be no doubt where Hitchens stood during the Cold War.
		It is true that, even as Trotsky had criticized Stalin, Hitchens felt free to criticize the USSR occasionally at The Nation—though generally without the venom reserved for the “Christian bigots” and “thwarted militarists” Hitchens saw in the “Reagan junta,” the fascists”; allied with the United States against Communism, and such obvious evildoers as Mother Teresa.
		Hitchens blamed the pope for such wide-ranging evils as the “enslavement of the Middle East” and “the millions who will die needlessly from AIDS,” a disease whose sexual transmission would cease if Catholic teaching were followed.
	www.amconmag.com /2005/2005_10_10/article3.html (1420 words)

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		Hitchens -- who traveled to Afghanistan in 2004 -- says, "The world these [al-Quadea and Taliban] fascists want to create is one of constant submission and servility.
		Hitchens gives an account of how the neoconservative philosophy affected the course of the Iraq war: "The CIA -- which is certainly not neoconservative -- wanted to keep the Iraqi army together because you never know when you might need a large local army.
		This profile is adapted from the article "An Interview with Christopher Hitchens: Adieu to the Left," written by Johann Hari and published by FrontPageMagazine.com on October 4, 2004.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=689 (2375 words)

	Christopher Hitchens
		Christopher Hitchens, longtime contributor to The Nation, wrote a wide-ranging, biweekly column for the magazine from 1982 to 2002.
		With trademark savage wit, Hitchens flattens hypocrisy inside the Beltway and around the world, laying bare the "permanent government" of entrenched powers and interests.
		Born in 1949 in Portsmouth, England, Hitchens received a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1970.
	www.thenation.com /directory/bios/christopher_hitchens (273 words)

	Jam Side Down by Martin Manley : Christopher Hitchens, National Treasure
		Today’s Stone Face of Zarqawi in the Wall Street Journal is Christopher Hitchens at his finest and gives lie to the comforting notion that “the war in Iraq has nothing to do with the fight against al Qaeda”.
		He is possessed of an intellect honed by the circular firing squads of the partisan left and a bruising Oxford wit that leaves his targets cowering.
		He is not only Orwell’s most pointed biographer but he has taken up the Orwellian cudgel as a relentless critic of imperialism, fascism, and communism in any form.
	www.martinmanley.com /2006/03/christopher_hitchens_national.html (582 words)

	Amazon.com: A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq: Books: Christopher Hitchens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hitchens focuses on two things in particular: rebutting those overly simplistic slogans of what he calls (yes, a bit unfairly) the 'peaceniks'; and ruminating on Hussein's human rights violations and the overly-bravado way he openly (arrogantly) defies UN stipulations.
		Hitchens is a crafty, skilled, invidious flack for the neocon minority that regards war as the solution for any problem produced by the collision of two or more ideas.
		Hitchens believed that Hussein had WMD, that he had well established ties to Al-Queda, and that the removal of Hussein was necessary for the stability of the region.
	www.amazon.com /Long-Short-War-Postponed-Liberation/dp/0452284988 (2939 words)

	Christopher Hitchens Interview
		HITCHENS: Well, I have the testimony of a former very active member of her Order who worked for her for many years and ended up in the office Mother Teresa maintains in New York City.
		HITCHENS: I said that I didn't ask for forgiveness and I wasn't aware that she could bestow it in any case.
		HITCHENS: I hesitated to cover this in my book, but I decided I had to publish that she has said that the suffering of the poor is something very beautiful and the world is being very much helped by the nobility of this example of misery and suffering.
	www.secularhumanism.org /library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html (5521 words)

	Johann Hari - Archive
		On September 10th, he was campaigning for Henry Kissinger to be arraigned before a war crimes tribunal in the Hague for his massive and systematic crimes against humanity in the 1960s and 1970s.
		Hitchens was sailing along the slow, certain route from being the Left's belligerent bad boy to being one of its most revered old men.
		Hitchens - who has just returned from Afghanistan - says, "The world these [al-Quadea and Taliban] fascists want to create is one of constant submission and servility.
	www.johannhari.com /archive/article.php?id=450 (3104 words)

	Christopher Hitchens: Bush Crippled by Agency Fratricide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hitchens recently told an audience that he somewhat unwittingly worked his way into a full-time job writing about the political, cultural and sexual conflicts both within Islam and between Islam and the West.
		HITCHENS: It is not the job of the administration to stimulate citizen solidarity with Iraqi Arabs and Kurds (and given the rest of the track record, I am relieved that they have not even tried it).
		HITCHENS: Even if every informer supplied by the INC had been a conscious agent of disinformation (and nobody has ever even suggested as much), it is self-evidently impossible that such a small operation could have hijacked the intelligence services of so many countries.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2005/12/18/173550.shtml (1239 words)

	Christopher Hitchens
		Critic of Mother Teresa (who he claims, rightly, that Teresa was more interested in the glorification of God and not helping the poor; she was a friend and supporter of Charles Keating, a man whose money she took when overlooking the fact that he obtained it by stealing from the poor).
		Hitchens also put Henry Kissinger on literary trial in one of his books -- "A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory." Once a figure of the left, on the staff of The Nation, Hitchens has departed that journal and joined Vanity Fair.
		After September 11, Hitchens returned to Pakistan and Afghanistan for Vanity Fair, resulting in his article, On the Frontier of Apocalypse.
	www.nndb.com /people/624/000050474 (251 words)

	The Common Review: Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
		Hitchens: Well, one thing it clearly shows is that the United States did not manipulate or determine the outcome of the elections.
		Hitchens: Paul Johnson is a buffoon, and, though I don't read him much any more, I have always guessed that some of his outrage is synthetic.
	talk.greatbooks.org /tcr/hitchens41 (5084 words)

	Salon Books \| The (un)friendly witness of Christopher Hitchens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As evidence of the sacrifices Hitchens has made, and as a service to the prospective reader, allow me to offer some names you will not find in the index, nor anywhere else in his trim, tidy tome: Rutherford Institute, the; Arkansas Project, the; Hale, David; Scaife, Richard Mellon; Steele, Julie Hiatt; McDougal, Susan.
		This story begins in 1995, when Hitchens and his editors at Vanity Fair were approached by a woman claiming to have had a child by Clinton.
		Hitchens can claim he's fulfilled his ethical obligations as a journalist while spreading a smear story.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/1999/06/07/hitchens/index.html (710 words)

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