Here's Christopher Hitchens talking at the Commonwealth Club, Palo Alto, last week. On the assumption that he was perhaps the only writer to have visited all three of Bush's infamous trio, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, he gives his views on the axis of evil. (No, no scare quotes.) It's in eight parts on YouTube, about an hour in all, but if you watch one section I'd recommend this first one, and the following #2, on Iraq, where he describes, in chilling detail, that infamous video of Saddam seizing power:
I'd estimate that having read Kanan Makiya's Republic of Fear, referred to here, or his later Cruelty and Silence, would have correlated fairly positively with supporting Saddam's overthrow. As Hitchens says, when, in arguments about the war, people would say, "well, OK, Saddam was a bad guy…" you'd know straight away they didn't really get it.
Mick Hartley 
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