Via Mark Finkelstein, Christopher Hitchens was on top of his game as usual in debunking some of the myths about Iraq that have pervaded the national consciousness via the media:

Matthews was running through a litany of what he termed “strike-outs” for the Bush administration in Iraq. When he got to “strikes out on the fact that we were going to be greeted as liberators,” Hitchens interrupted:

HITCHENS: No, no. We were greeted as liberators. I saw it myself.
MATTHEWS: The pictures, yeah.
HITCHENS: No, no, I was there. I saw it myself, many many times. American soldiers and British soldiers were greeted by hundreds of thousands of people with real joy. I saw it myself. I can’t believe people say it didn’t happen.”

Because people like Matthews let them get away with it.

Video here.