The detestable Phillip Adams answers Hitchens with this:

We're inviting you back on to Late Night Live but, before that encounter, let me say that I did not absolve Saddam from guilt against the Kurds or his people. I simply reported to Australians another of Tony Blair's wild extrapolations from the facts. In this case not about weapons of mass destruction but about mass graves. He has said, on more than one occasion, that 400,000 corpses have been found in mass graves since the war, whereas the figure is 395,000 less.
In response to inquiries from The Observer, No.10 has withdrawn the claim. I also quoted from The Guardian, which suggested that Blair was upping the ante on the body count because the other reasons (or excuses) for the war were looking shaky. And I repeated what Human Rights Watch had conceded -- that the West, like the organisation itself, might have exaggerated the number of Saddam's victims. And if they were going to nail Saddam on genocide, the courts would have to get the facts right.

400 thousand is way different than 395 thousand, Hitch must be a liar. Am I reading that right? Adams is arguing that he is right because Hitch argued that 5,000 more souls were lost. Pathetic Phillip. Emphasis mine.