Hitchens again 

Hitchens again

I should really stay away from this stuff, but I can't resist. Althouse quoting Hitchens in the Weekly Standard.

"For anyone with eyes to see, there was only one other state that combined the latent and the blatant definitions of both 'rogue' and 'failed.' This state--Saddam's ruined and tortured and collapsing Iraq...."

So I guess "latent and blatant" is the new way of saying: "A lot of what the Bushies have said about Iraq isn't true, but by golly it would have come true eventually; it was latent."

[blockquote][Iraq] had also met all the conditions under which a country may be deemed to have sacrificed its own legal sovereignty. To recapitulate: It had invaded its neighbors, committed genocide on its own soil, harbored and nurtured international thugs and killers, and flouted every provision of the Non-Proliferation Treaty....[/blockquote]

Boy, that is awful. So awful, it is hard to think of a single other country, other than Saddam's Iraq, that has done all those things. Well, maybe there is one.

UPDATE: And of course, Saddam wasn't "proliferating" in violation of a treat; hadn't, in fact, "proliferated" for 10 years. Oh right: that was latent.