Fisking Andrew

Am I using that term right? “Fisking”? It’s one of those bloggy-terms that I’ve never used before, but seems to apply to this point by point takedown of Andrew Sullivan by Pete Wehner. It’s long, so I won’t quote it in its entirety, but point 4 deserves special attention, especially this bit:

And the day before, Sullivan quoted Ann Clwyd writing this in the Times of London:

I do not have a monopoly on wisdom or morality. But I know one thing. This evil, fascist regime must come to an end. With or without the help of the Security Council, and with or without the backing of the Labour Party in the House of Commons tonight.

Every time I think about the lead up to the Iraq War–Did Bush lie? Was the evidence forged? Why didn’t we get one more in a neverending series of Security Council resolutions?–I remind myself of this point: the world is a better place without a man like Saddam Hussein in charge of a country. It’s a point that Christopher Hitchens made better than I a while back; I wish I had his quote in front of me, but his point was that it all comes back to this: regardless of the reasons not to have removed Saddam, his murderous, Fascist regime was a blight on the planet. A blight that–for whatever reason–is now gone.