A wartime lexicon.

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• Let the Afghan Poppies Bloom How the drug war is undermining the war on terrorism.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 13, 2004
  
• What Made Alexander So Great? The real mystery of his life isn't his bisexuality.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 29, 2004
  
• Arafat's Squalid End How he wasted his last 30 years.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 17, 2004
  
• Bush's Secularist Triumph The left apologizes for religious fanatics. The president fights them.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 9, 2004
  
• My Endorsement and Osama's Video The news in Bin Laden's comments had nothing to do with our election.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 1, 2004
  
• In Front of Your Nose Yes, Saddam did have terrorist connections.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 25, 2004
  
• The Buried Truth A new book shows that Saddam didn't have nuclear weapons—yet.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 8, 2004
  
• Flirting With Disaster The vile spectacle of Democrats rooting for bad news in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 27, 2004
  
• A Thousand Killed What a little-known British poet named Bernard Spencer knew.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 9, 2004
  
• Murder by Any Other Name The rest of the world may be tiring of jihad, but The Nation isn't.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 7, 2004
  
• The Captive Mind Now What Czeslaw Milosz understood about Islam.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 30, 2004
  
• Not So Swift John Kerry's dubious Vietnam revisionism.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 23, 2004
  
• Chalabi Strikes Back A counterfeit charge considered.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 11, 2004
  
• Safe Cracking The silliness of security alerts.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 6, 2004
  
• Firehouse Rot John Kerry's cheapest shot.
  Christopher Hitchens July 30, 2004
  
• Plame's Lame Game What Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife forgot to tell us about the yellow-cake scandal.
  Christopher Hitchens July 13, 2004
  
• A Very, Very Dirty Word The British Empire's second-greatest gift to the world.
  Christopher Hitchens July 6, 2004
  
• Unfairenheit 9/11 The lies of Michael Moore.
  Christopher Hitchens June 21, 2004
  
• A Moral Chernobyl Prepare for the worst of Abu Ghraib.
  Christopher Hitchens June 14, 2004
  
• Not Even a Hedgehog The stupidity of Ronald Reagan.
  Christopher Hitchens June 7, 2004
  
• Ahmad and Me Defending Chalabi.
  Christopher Hitchens May 27, 2004
  
• What Went Wrong The flaw in Seymour Hersh's theory.
  Christopher Hitchens May 18, 2004
  
• Prison Mutiny What the torturers of Abu Ghraib have wrought.
  Christopher Hitchens May 4, 2004
  
• Covering the "Quagmire" Are war correspondents betting on failure in Iraq?
  Christopher Hitchens April 29, 2004
  
• Second Thinking What I got wrong about Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens April 19, 2004
  
• Vietnam? Why the analogy doesn't hold water. 
  Christopher Hitchens April 12, 2004
  
• Clarke's Progress Guess who used to believe in the Iraq/al-Qaida connection?
  Christopher Hitchens March 29, 2004
  
• Road to Damascus The Kurds nominate Syria for regime change.
  Christopher Hitchens March 22, 2004
  
• To Die in Madrid The nutty logic that says Spain provoked Islamist terrorism.
  Christopher Hitchens March 15, 2004
  
• Schlock, Yes; Awe, No; Fascism, Probably The flogging Mel Gibson demands.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 27, 2004
  
• The Vietnam Syndrome, Again The mistake Democrats make when they compare Iraq to Vietnam.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 16, 2004
  
• All Against Bush Whom should the Democrats nominate?
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 8, 2004
  
• A Tale of Two Reports David Kay and Lord Hutton.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 30, 2004
  
• Guerrillas in the Mist Why the war in Iraq is nothing like The Battle of Algiers.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 2, 2004