Greg Palast SLAMS George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens.

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I'm not the biggest fan of Palast's, but he skewers Tariq Aziz's friend and the town drunk royally here:

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=457&row=0

The entire thing is worth a read. But, I'll just excerpt the conclusion:

<snip>A couple of months after the invasion of Iraq, I was in Los Angeles and some drunk accosted me, saying, "George Bush was right about everything he said about Iraq!" -- weapons of mass destruction, the al-Qaeda connection and more. It was Christopher Hitchens, "debating" me, and furious. His confusing our President's assertions with reality was a verbal pie he threw in the air and caught on his face.

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But it is not good enough for the Left to oppose Mr. Bush's re-colonization of Iraq. We needed to have actively supported Iraqis fighting to remove their Mesopotamian Stalin. And now, we'd better come up with something a little less nutty than a recent suggestion by one otherwise thoughtful writer that we, "unconditionally support the insurgency" of berserker killers and fundamentalist madmen. If that's the Left's program for Iraq, count me out.

We can't define ourselves as the "anti-Bush," blindly supporting those he opposes, and thereby letting the nitwit Napoleon in the White House pick our enemies for us. Nor can our revulsion for Bush's horrors throw us into the arms of swamp-things like George Galloway.

Don't get me wrong. Unlike Hitchens, I cannot support the Prevaricator-in-Chief, the President who ordered Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, to march to his death in Najaf. But I'll be damned if I'll cheer some rich white Brit-hole who brings joy to Casey's killers.
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[mike_c]

1. personally, I'm rooting for the "brit-hole...."

Palast can stuff it if he wants to simply dismiss the Iraqi fight against U.S. occupation as "berserker killers and fundamentalist madmen." That's a page from the PNAC playbook, IMO.

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4. No, it's the non-sediitious position to take.

Palast hates Bush, but doesn't let that diminish his dedication to his values and his country.

Pity odious scum like Hitchens and his admirers choose the other path . . . .

[Jim Sagle]

2. Palast RRRRRAWWWWKSSSSS!!!!!!!!

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3. On occasions like this, he certainly does. eom