Hitchens equates IEDs to land mines. Really.

[KamaAina]

It's part of a rant about how good solid progressives like Hitch :sarcasm: should not only be rah-rah pro-Iraq war, but should also be using it to advance progressive causes! :eyes:

No, really. It's not The Onion or anything like that:

http://www.slate.com/id/2144578/

The Clinton administration declined to sign the (land mine -Ed.) treaty, mainly on the grounds that a huge number of American land mines guard the so-called demilitarized (actually very highly militarized) zone that helps protect South Korea from a "dear leader" attack. But nobody is going to wander innocently into that zone. Whereas in Iraq and Afghanistan, every day dozens of these devices—sometimes known as "improvised explosive devices," or IEDs—are buried where anyone can step on them or be blown up by them.

Clearly Hitch wasn't a math major: "every day dozens of these devices... are buried.." Earth to Hitchens: Land mines are mass-produced. When they're deployed, thousands of them are buried each day. If we ever do reach the point where the insurgency has enough IEDs to use them like land mines, we are in deep doo-doo!

In case you're still wondering, we're also supposed to admit that the war was/is preferable to a continuation of UN sanctions, march in the streets to demand an end to "don't ask, don't tell", and go over there and volunteer as human shields. :puke:

edit: I don't know why I keep on clicking on Hitchens links, when I know perfectly well that all I'm gonna get is smarmy pro-war propaganda, albeit somewhat more subtle than that on offer at Faux News. I must have had a nail in my head...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. he ran out of bourbon, and switched to tequila? Explains a lot.

Then again, his scotch days were infamous. As were his gin days, his rye days, his sloe gin days, his mash days, his southern comfort days, his brandy days, his . . .

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Wow.... that must be SOME ingrown nail..... whew. n/t