Hitchens reflects on death of soldier who enlisted because of pro-war propaganda

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Mon Oct-15-07 07:29 AM
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Hitchens reflects on death of soldier who enlisted because of pro-war propaganda

Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 07:41 AM by TOJ

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/hitchens200711

I don't exaggerate by much when I say that I froze. I certainly felt a very deep pang of cold dismay. I had just returned from a visit to Iraq with my own son (who is 23, as was young Mr. Daily) and had found myself in a deeply pessimistic frame of mind about the war. Was it possible that I had helped persuade someone I had never met to place himself in the path of an I.E.D.?

Well, at least he's thinking about the death he contributed to.

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