For a truly beautiful polemic, take a look at Christopher Hitchens’s most recent posting over at Slate, in which he dissects the implications of David Kay’s supposedly shocking admission. A sample graph:

“[I]t seems perfectly idiotic of anybody to complain that we have now found…out [that Saddam didn’ have any WMDs after all]….This highly pertinent and useful discovery could only be made by way of regime change. And the knowledge that Iraq can be finally and fully certified as disarmed, and that it won’t be able to rearm under a Caligula regime, is surely a piece of knowledge worth having in its own right and for its own sake.”

When Hitch is bad he is horrid, of course. But when he is good he is very, very good.