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ON the sleeve of
Christopher Hitchens’
new book there is
praise from Catch 22
author Joseph Heller.

“Christopher Hitchens.”
writes Heller, *jousts with
traudulenee of evers stripe
and: always wins.”

nd right Heller is.

In No One Left to Lie ta:
The Triauqulations af
Welliaan Jefferson Clinien,
Hitchens slays the Leader,

sis a chronicle of abuse

and corrupron,
written by an impassioned
contrarian,

A polemicist second te
none, Hitchens’ sharply
barbed wit and malicious
quips are Brit through and
through his arrogance
and elitism delightfully out
of syne with Liberal sensibili-
ties.

In a Lett plagued by
Stalinist witch-hunts, and
grotesque sentimentality,
Hitchens is a breath of fresh

Ci

fair
comment

dit, ha additian to being
funny, this is sa angry and
well docamented account of
the flick hole thatis Clinton
ant his administration.
Aathor Hitchens is no
stranger to controversy. In
fact, were the Catholic
Chureh in the habit of issy
twas (Islamic rulings)
iP those guilty of blas-
phemy, then Hitchens wo
have t leit to hide.
The Missionary Position -
Mather aia Theory and
Practice, was Hitchens’ suc-
ul swipe at this untouch-
able. When he was through
with ker, the Oxford educat-

the lite Mother Feresa
who presided over a huge
fortune «© preterred ths
“the poorest of the poor”
die shivering on stark mats,
palliated only wath an

piri, because she beloved
ther sutterinag brought
redemption to all. Mother,
on the other hand, reatinely
avaded herself of the best

In this fatest effort,
Hitchens delivers the goods
on Clinton, depicting hin as
t “cheap crook.”

He exposes an adminis:
tration mired in cronyism
and soft money scandals, and
decries the attempts by this
all powerful administration
to besmirch the reputations
of women who came for-
ward to speak of the
exploitation of the
Commander: In-Chiet!

vone is spaced, includ:
he stage army of liber-

— the press, femi-
s, and the anti-cant-

ty priority should be

to upgrade existing fiele

Re: Kevin Gillies’ May 14
article, “Residents oppose ci
field plan.”

We are r
ly to two phra:

Gillies used in his

turn what they consider to be

a sensitive enclave into a soc-

ter field” and “...with the

notion that Sunrise Park is a
istine forest area.”

It is not our notion; it i
not only we who consider thi
a sensitive natural enclave. It is
also. the notion of the
Environmental = Protection
Program Committce housed
under the Corporation of the
City of North Vancouver.

This commiuce, on Feb,

_ 4, 1999, unanimously recom-
mended:

@ chat Sunrise Park be
reserved as a natural reserve
area in light of this diminish-
ing resource, and the identi-
fied environmental sensitivity;
BW that Sunrise Park be sched-
uled for environmental reha-

bilitation subject to feasibility

udy;

Wi that given the recent proto-
col agreement for joint use of
fields ... an existing: field is
upgraded to all-weather sur-
face and sports illumination in
preference to the develop-
ment of Sunrise Park.

Councillor Darrell
Mussatto himself said in this
same article, “We need more
fields but we've got no more
space left.”

Right you are Mr.
Mussatto. There is no space
left. Thus we should not sacri-
fice what little green space we
have. The David Suzuki

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nine out of 10) Canadians
want to protect the habiiat yer
not reflected in the

being made in our

local governments.
There are other values
besides organized sport that
are equally important to soci-
ety and family life i
nized sport, appreciation of
nature, and solitary 4 ‘.
Preservation of the few
remaining enclaves of natural
habitat is imperative in order

, unorga-

to sapport these values, as
Nerth Vancouver City is
already essentially a clear-cut.
The city should proceed
immediately with implement:
ing the joint-use agreement
with schouls to upgrade exist-
ing playing fields tor soccer or
other recreational uses.
Better management of
existing fields should be made
a priority.
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ainethe bedroom school,
who all turned a blind eve to
the abuse of power be a
President quite happy to
hawk the Lincoln bedroom
to foreiwn despots when in
need of campaign mone

To describe the how of
Chaton’s opportunistic poli
tics, Hitchens entists
Canada’s David Fram:
CTinten, ssrites Pram, “has
asstaged the Lett by contin:
ually proposing bold
programs...

anf a nanonal
‘ program.

“And he has placated the
Right by dropping every one
of these programs as soon as
he proposed it.”

Henee the concept of
Triangulation, which essen-
tially refers to Clinton's abil-
ity to “purchase” voters from
around the political spee-
trum by adopting policies
from the Left and Right in
Accordance with expedient
popularity needs.

While some commenta-
tors would view this
New Way,” Hitchens see
as betrayal, especially given
the ruthlessness with w
welfare mothers were
dropped from welfarz rol
with none of the j
ing, health care, or minimum
wags promised them,

The saddest tale of
Clintonian opportunism is
surely the one where

anton, failing ia the 1992

rimaries duc to the diselo-
sure of his affair with
Genniter Flowe k
to Arkansas to make sure a

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the expansion of

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“yravely retarded man” is
executed -~ a man who had
kept his last pecan pie “tor

cause he had not
understood there was to be
no lat ng mothers
from the welfare role in the
absence of a safety net rates a
close second,

t surprisingly, Mr.

Hitchens brooks no toler

¢ for Hillary Clinton's
brand of dup!

‘This is all the me
admirable in light of her
recent fying tour of a
Kosovar refugee camp, dur-
ing which she told the
Kosovar refugees she
their pain.”

For such me.
therapeutic comtort-sp
the First Lady should ha
had her Inner Child
smacked.

The book is not short of
Hitchens’ trademark
admirable turns of phrase.

Best of all, are the
de scriptions of “Bomber

"incoherent ramblings
“adhere to the
otex of a thinking human
being.”

Also rich, is the deserip-
tion of BB “carrying a large
Bible trom prayer break
to prayer breakfast while
ordering the downtrodden
to shape up, and the war
planes to disciptine™ unpop

nations,

Phe theme of canine as in

Vag The Dog caps one of the
harshest indictments of
intonism. Here Hitchens
cobbles together damning
evidence to shaw that this

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administration lied about the
bombing of a Sudanese phar-
maceutical company, which,
they daimed, was making 2
precursor to Merve gas.

During the bombing only
ene person died. but because
the factory was the main
manufacturer of medicines
and vaccinations in Sudan,
many more impoverished
and voiceless people are like-
fv to dose their lives asa
result
. bombing of
frag also adheres to the polt-
des of Wag The Dag — it
being commenced to coin-
cide with Clinton's court
dates, and without “open
consultation sith cithe
Congress or the Unit
Nations.”

pally, it is characteristic

of Christopher Hitchens to
jump into the frav and to
become part of the events he
documents so well.

sa prime shaker and
mover in Washington's jour-
nalistic circles, he is made
privy to evidence the White
House v ttempting te
frame Monica Lewinsky
stalker.

Ina controversial move
some deery as blatant sel
promotion on the eve of the
publication af this book,
Hitchens turns witnes
(against Clinton) for
House Judiciary Committee.

I'm inclined to believe
that Hitchens just wanted to
do his bit in trying to bring
down the man he calls a “lar

sonofabitch.”
——anome@aticanadanet

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