Reply #40: Hitchens Called Kissinger a War Criminal

[al bupp]

In a series of excerpts published in Harpers and then released as a book before 9/11, Hitchens made a strong case that Kissinger ought to be judged a War Criminal for his involvement of the secret bombings of Loas and the invasion of East Timor during the Nixon admin. Of course not much was made of this in the major media at the time.

I used to religiously read his pieces in the Nation during the Eighties, when he reliably exoriated the Reagan admin for its misadventures in Central America.

I'm not at all sure what came over him w/ regards to the Iraq war. He seems to have been won over by Blair's rhetoric. I think he honstly believes what he says about it, not that I agree w/ him. I have to say that he makes an effective critic of the left. I think we write him off at our own risk, although it appears that Moore's prepared to defend against his and other's assaults on the films integrity.