I protest.

"A lot of people don't like you."

Atrios points us at an article in the Guardian by Michael Wolff: "I was only asking."

Most telling to me was the warning he received from the Centcom uber-civilian, a thirty-ish Republican operative. He was more full-metal-jacket in his approach (although he was a civilian he was, inexplicably, in uniform - making him, I suppose a sort of para-military figure): "I have a brother who is in a Hummer at the front, so don't talk to me about too much fucking air-conditioning." And: "A lot of people don't like you." And then: "Don't fuck with things you don't understand." And too: "This is fucking war, asshole." And finally: "No more questions for you."

"You've met the Hitler youth," said another reporter.

Exactly. Need I spell it out?