Christopher Hitchens, in an interview with Tavis Smiley: “I don't think either President Bush or Prime Minister Blair actually lied. I think that they made the absolute most of and put the worst construction on every piece of intelligence they were given about Iraq's connections to terror, which are undoubted, and Iraq's record on WMD, which is also undoubted, and I personally think that was the prudent way to go. I think it meant some exaggeration, and I would have preferred that they stressed things like Iraq's breach of the genocide convention and its human rights record and so forth, because I think it's better to educate people than to frighten them. But it's...better, perhaps, to do either than to make people complacent about a regime like that which was melting down and becoming an extremely dangerous thing in itself.”
Other topics covered are United States actions against Serbian ethnic cleansing—an action I opposed based on sovereignty, an opposition I regret—wacky New York City laws and the latest Mel Gibson movie.
