[Just Lucky]

Originally Posted by PlayadelSoul

Christopher Hitchens, a conservative?


Sorry, Lucky, you came up short. You posted something, representing it as fact, and have no proof to back it up. Next time, maybe save us the time by inserting the words "some believe" or "one theory has it that".

Are there particular sources he quotes you don't believe? Most of them were in the Nixon administration, Hitchens changed his stripes some time ago and joined your team:

While Hitchens' idiosyncratic ideas and positions preclude easy classification, he is a vociferous critic of what he describes as "fascism with an Islamic face," and his critics have been known to describe him as a "neoconservative". Hitchens, however, refuses to embrace this designation.[6] In 2004, Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Bosnia and Iraq convinced him that he was "on the same side as the neo-conservatives" when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues.[7] He has also been known to refer to his association with "temporary neocon allies".[8] In a Slate article published in 2004, Christopher Hitchens wrote ""George Bush may subjectively be a Christian, but he -- and the US armed forces -- have objectively done more for secularism than the whole of the American agnostic community combined and doubled