Hitchens is fond of this un-necessary war (or at least was initially), because he thought it might be the first step in his wet dream of the forced de-Islamification of the Middle East. If things had gone smoothy in Iraq, I think he envisioned American and British soldiers sweeping through Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and Iran, ripping off burkhas and leveling the mosques and forcing everyone to become a snide, boozy Secular Humanist like Hitchens himself (mind you, there are plenty of Secular Humanists who are neither snide nor boozy, but CH is hardly a good advertisement for the sort). Mind you, if they were all made over in his likeness, there wouldn't be a drop of whiskey left on the planet and Conde Nast would go broke providing them all with expense accounts . . .