Hitchens on Iraq

Some good recent Hitchen's posts on Slate. On Ramsey Clark:
"I meanwhile shall recline, happy in the knowledge that Saddam Hussein has engaged the services of an attorney who proclaims him to be guilty as charged."

On the double standard which takes no notice of Afghanistan, but wrings its hands over Iraq.
It links to this nifty cartoon in which maleavolent vipers labled Syria and Iran hover, detered by a powerful American eagle, while a little Iraqi baby eagle says, "I need to know your timetable for withdrawl." Indeed anyone in his situation would like to know when it would be that they would be abandon to the vipers.

On the nature of the debate over Iraq and the consequences of an early withdrawal.