Lipsticking the pig

Christopher Hitchens, the Great Iraqi Asparagus, and the friendship that sank two countries

Don’t allow your thinking to be done for you
by any party or faction, however high-minded.
 Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

Get me a terrorist and some WMDs,
because that’s what the Bush administration wants!
Francis Brooke, consigliere to Ahmed Chalabi

“FATALLY UNRELIABLE,” “RUTHLESSLY DECEPTIVE,” “an inexplicable certitude in his own…