Uit Hitch 22, a memoir van Christopher Hitchens aan het eind van een hoofdstuk waarin hij uitlegt waarom hij achter de inval in Irak stond en staat:

Postscript

I was having an oppressively normal morning at the dawn of 2007,
flicking through the banality of quotidian email traffic, when I idly
clicked on a message from a friend headed “Seen This?” The
attached item turned out to be a very well-written story by Teresa
Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times. It described the death, in Mosul,
Iraq, of a...
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