(Slate) - Christopher Hitchens So it turns out that all the slogans of the anti-war movement were right after all. And their demands were just. "No War on Iraq," they said - and there wasn't a war on Iraq. Indeed, there was barely a "war" at all. "No Blood for Oil," they cried, and the oil wealth of Iraq has been duly rescued from attempted sabotage with scarcely a drop spilled. The Arab street did finally detonate. You can see the Baghdad and Basra and Karbala streets filling up like anything, just by snapping on your television. We were told that Baghdad would become another Stalingrad - which it has. Just as in Stalingrad in 1953, all the statues and portraits of the heroic leader have been torn down.
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