A wartime lexicon.

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• Neighborhood Watch Yes, Iran is meddling in Iraqi affairs, but maybe the influence works both ways.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 27, 2005
  
• Bah, Humbug The horrors of December in a one-party state.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 20, 2005
  
• Secrets and Lies The DoD's disgraceful plot to plant rosy stories in the Iraqi press.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 5, 2005
  
• The Perils of Withdrawal We're sticking with Afghanistan. Why would we ditch Iraq?
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 29, 2005
  
• Nowhere To Go Stop the taunting, and let's have a real debate about the Iraq war.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 22, 2005
  
• Believe It or Not Are you sure you want to keep saying we were fooled by Ahmad Chalabi and the INC?
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 14, 2005
  
• Realism in Darfur Consider the horrors of peace.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 7, 2005
  
• Mr. Stability The wrongness of Brent Scowcroft's realism.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 1, 2005
  
• Calling Galloway's Bluff The Senate uncovers a smoking gun.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 25, 2005
  
• Tribal Ignorance What you think you know about Iraq's factions is all wrong.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 17, 2005
  
• Miers and Brimstone Let's stop pretending there's no religious test for nominees.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 10, 2005
  
• Why Ask Why? Terrorist attacks aren't caused by any policy except that of the bombers themselves.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 3, 2005
  
• Anti-War, My Foot The phony peaceniks who protested in Washington.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 26, 2005
  
• The Inalienable Right To Screw Up Your Country And the joy of finding a leader who can help bring it back together again.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 19, 2005
  
• George Galloway Is Gruesome, Not Gorgeous Now, watch me debate him.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 12, 2005
  
• Iraq and Katrina The war hasn't kept us from fighting the flood.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 6, 2005
  
• Cut It Off Another disgusting religious practice.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 29, 2005
  
• Equal Time No tax-exempt status for churches that refuse to distribute pro-evolution propaganda!
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 23, 2005
  
• What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants Now imagine if she gets it.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 19, 2005
  
• Cindy Sheehan's Sinister Piffle What's wrong with her Crawford protest.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 15, 2005
  
• Losing the Iraq War Can the left really want us to?
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 8, 2005
  
• Catholic Justice Quit tiptoeing around John Roberts' faith.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 1, 2005
  
• A Nutty Little Law The Intelligence Identities Protection Act must go.
  Christopher Hitchens July 26, 2005
  
• Rove Rage The poverty of our current scandal.
  Christopher Hitchens July 18, 2005
  
• From Srebrenica to Baghdad What the genocide taught us about intervention.
  Christopher Hitchens July 11, 2005
  
• The Anticipated Attack Don't blame Iraq for the bombings.
  Christopher Hitchens July 7, 2005
  
• Casualties and Causalities How to ruin an occupation.
  Christopher Hitchens July 5, 2005
  
• Don't "Son" Me End this silly talk about sacrificing children.
  Christopher Hitchens June 28, 2005
  
• Conspiracy Theories If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you'll love the Downing Street memo.
  Christopher Hitchens June 21, 2005
  
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Plus, Amnesty's amnesia.
  Christopher Hitchens June 13, 2005
  
• Terminal Futility Routine airport security won't thwart jihadists, but it does inconvenience and endanger the rest of us.
  Christopher Hitchens June 6, 2005
  
• The Brother Karimov America's friend, Uzbekistan's dictator.
  Christopher Hitchens June 1, 2005
  
• Stop the Masochistic Insanity The violent response to the report of "Quranic abuse" isn't about faith, it's about intolerance.
  Christopher Hitchens May 23, 2005
  
• History and Mystery Why does the New York Times insist on calling jihadists "insurgents"?
  Christopher Hitchens May 16, 2005
  
• Abu Ghraib Isn't Guernica But here's why the Spanish Civil War analogy is worth exploring.
  Christopher Hitchens May 9, 2005
  
• Worse Than 1984 North Korea, slave state.
  Christopher Hitchens May 2, 2005
  
• Long Live Labor Why I'm for Tony Blair.
  Christopher Hitchens April 25, 2005
  
• Two Ibrahims and Two Women Four individuals who took on the powerful.
  Christopher Hitchens April 18, 2005
  
• On Not Mourning the Pope Thoughts over the grave of John Paul II.
  Christopher Hitchens April 8, 2005
  
• Papal Power John Paul II's other legacy.
  Christopher Hitchens April 1, 2005
  
• Easter Charade There's no resurrecting Terri Schiavo.
  Christopher Hitchens March 28, 2005
  
• That Bleeding Heart Wolfowitz He's not exactly who you think he is.
  Christopher Hitchens March 22, 2005
  
• This Was Not Looting How did Saddam's best weapons plants get plundered?
  Christopher Hitchens March 15, 2005
  
• Burned Out Nuke this journalistic cliché.
  Christopher Hitchens March 7, 2005
  
• The Arab Street A vanquished cliché.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 28, 2005
  
• Beating a Dead Parrot Why Iraq and Vietnam have nothing whatsoever in common.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 31, 2005
  
• Ahmad Again Chalabi's return and other good news from the Iraqi campaign.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 26, 2005
  
• Two Elections Why Iraq's vote is not like Palestine's.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 10, 2005
  
• Two Elections Why Iraq's vote is not like Palestine's.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 10, 2005