I'll never understand, and will never stop mourning, Hitch's transformation into a bellicose war monger. What I don't understand is why, just because he despises Islamic fundamentalists, or Islamo-fascists, or whatever you wish to call them, he therefore has to back a misguided, mishandled, military debacle born of a series of lies? I hate them too, so does anyone with a brain, but that hate, strong as it is, is not strong enough to make me back this criminally corrupt administration. That Hitch would even indirectly support the policies of a man like Bush--a man whose infantile smugness and complete lack of intellectual curiosity he would be mercilessly skewering right now had September 11th never happened--is sad beyond belief.