Considering the praise he lavished on his Kurdish friends over there in Iraq. I'm sure they are all Rhodes Scholars with quite liberal attitudes towards feminine equality.

It is also ironic when we consider Hitchens' glee over the destruction of the one genuine secular Arabic state (Iraq) in the MidEast.

Mr. Hitchens, Helms might have been a racist, but you my British friend (where do you come off talking about American Independence anyway?) are a warmongering hypocrite.