I saw this a couple days ago, when it appeared in my local newspaper The National Post. Big thanks to Instapundit for finding a more reliable URL that I could use to share Christopher Hitchens' "Giving Peace a Chance":

"So it turns out that all the slogans of the anti-war movement were right after all. And their demands were just. "No War on Iraq," they said—and there wasn't a war on Iraq. Indeed, there was barely a "war" at all. "No Blood for Oil," they cried, and the oil wealth of Iraq has been duly rescued from attempted sabotage with scarcely a drop spilled. Of the nine oil wells set ablaze by the few desperadoes who obeyed the order, only one is still burning and the rest have been capped and doused without casualties. "Stop the War" was the call. And the "war" is indeed stopping. That's not such a bad record. An earlier anti-war demand—"Give the Inspectors More Time"—was also very prescient and is also about to be fulfilled in exquisite detail.

...What else? Oh yes, the Arab street did finally detonate, just as the peace movement said it would. You can see the Baghdad and Basra and Karbala streets filling up like anything, just by snapping on your television. And the confrontation with Saddam Hussein did lead to a surge in terrorism, with suicide bombers and a black-shirted youth movement answering his call. As could also have been predicted, those determined to die are now dead. We were told that Baghdad would become another Stalingrad—which it has. Just as in Stalingrad in 1953, all the statues and portraits of the heroic leader have been torn down....."

The rest is a stand out even among Hitch's excellent work over the past 2 years. Yes, it's caustic. Yes, it's deeply ironic. Yes, it deeply questions the good faith of those who continue to protest the liberation of Iraq and feel sadness or gloom at the events unfolding now on TV. Deserved on all counts, and very very funny.