The drunken, former trotskyite, now neo-con flag waver had this to say about Saddam in 1976

[rpannier]

An Arab country with the second largest proven oil reserves, a fierce revolutionary ideology, a large and recently-blooded army, and a leadership composed almost entirely of men in their thirties is obviously a force to be reckoned with. Iraq, which has this dynamic combination and much else besides, has not until recently been very much regarded as a power. But with the new discussions in Opec, the ending of the Kurdistan war and the new round of fighting in Lebanon, its political voice is being heard more and more. The Baghdad regime is the first oil-producing government to opt for 100-per-cent nationalisation, a process completed with the acquisition of foreign assets in Basrah last December. It was the first to call for the use of oil as a political weapon against Israel and her backers. It gives strong economic and political support to the ‘Rejection Front’ Palestinians who oppose Arafat’s conciliation and are currently trying to outface the Syrians in Beirut. And it has a leader — Saddam Hussain — who has sprung from being an underground revolutionary gunman to perhaps the first visionary Arab statesman since Nasser.


link:
http://www.newstatesman.com/200707050056

Saddam Hussein is a visionary statesman...
Hitchens was wrong again!!!
Imagine that...Color me shocked.

[Tom Joad]

1. Sober neo-con Daniel Pipes, always anti-Arab, said this Let's arm Saddam!

http://tomjoad.org/pipes.htm

Pipes, a hero of the aipac/adl groupies, and bushie adviser, said that the US should arm Saddam so that he could kill more people in Iran.
http://tomjoad.org/pipes.htm

[EFerrari]

2. And Saddam didn't "spring" from any where. He was a CIA

project. When Hitchens is wrong, he's really wrong -- pretty much whenever he's awake.

/oops

[TreasonousBastard]

3. So how come this sot gets paid to yak and I don't?

[rpannier]

4. Because being constantly rude, constantly wrong and being a pompous windbag gets you airtime

Look at glen 'I say what people (at Klan rallies and Aryan Brotherhood conventions) are thinking', Capt Oxycotin, insannity, shill o'lielly, etal. They're on the air constantly.

Plus, I think there are people who assume if you have an English accent you must know what you're talking about.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I can be a rude pompous windbag who's always wrong....

so where's the job application?

[rpannier]

6. Well...I'm sure if you call one of those radio shows enough times they might give you a spot

That's how some neo-con, fundie woman in Georgia got her radio show.

or

Join some megachurch...I'm sure there's some guy there who will give you a show if you're wrong enough on facts, but 'right with God'