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I'm not a Christian... well not for 45 years now, but I agree with those upthread. He was a bigot.
TalkingDog
Dec 2011
#72
Maybe you should learn more about Hitchens' actual position and his actual works in his life
inademv
Dec 2011
#2
You mean like in '07 where he was whining that we weren't killing enough Muslims?
Posteritatis
Dec 2011
#22
Do you piss on everyone's graves or just those that knew how to use the English language properly?
truebrit71
Dec 2011
#219
His voice could barely be heard over Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al
paparush
Dec 2011
#148
In the end, he became a neo-con, many of whom claimed to be converts from the Left.
Romulox
Dec 2011
#8
I can see how you would get that impression from reading an evaluation by someone who listen to him
inademv
Dec 2011
#169
He was. He had my attention until he turned right wing. That pissed me off. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#9
he is like too many idiots. he lived at the extremes of left and right and mocked nuance
roguevalley
Dec 2011
#27
I sometimes think he switched because it allowed him to make more money. I don't know. nt
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#34
And Kim Jon Ill did vastly more damage to the entirety of the North Korean peoples.
DFab420
Dec 2011
#11
Yea and what kind of liberals accuse writers of crimes against humanity over writing about opinions?
phleshdef
Dec 2011
#15
And Kim Jon Ill did vastly more damage to the entirety of the North Korean peoples.
AlbertCat
Dec 2011
#163
I think the 29 Senate Democrats who voted to allow Bush to go to war deserve greater condemnation.
MNBrewer
Dec 2011
#14
He believed it was a fight worth having for various reasons. I see his reasons, but I don't believe
phleshdef
Dec 2011
#65
No. I heard and read Hitchens argue in favor of continued fighting in Iraq post saddam.
phleshdef
Dec 2011
#77
Wait for something like an Arab Spring to occur and treat it with a similar fashion as we did Egypt.
phleshdef
Dec 2011
#106
Well we were having a debate about it, if you don't care to continue that then that is unfortunate
inademv
Dec 2011
#109
No, they dont deserve ANY condemnation. There was nothing wrong with that vote as I explained here
stevenleser
Dec 2011
#55
Nope, they don't. The IWR authorized war only if UN Resolutions were not followed. At the time IWR
stevenleser
Dec 2011
#87
So wait, because they voted to go to war before the inspection was complete they get a pass? n/t
inademv
Dec 2011
#91
Which makes sense if you remember the conditions under which the IWR was created
stevenleser
Dec 2011
#114
No level of weapontry they had or could get in a small timeframe would have been a threat to
inademv
Dec 2011
#133
The wording is right in the resolution. You ignore it because it proves you incorrect. nt
stevenleser
Dec 2011
#122
I don't think he would take credit for that war. And it wouldn't be false modesty.
immoderate
Dec 2011
#20
On the one hand, I understand it, he hated religious zealotry particularly as the ruling order of a
stevenleser
Dec 2011
#57
North Korea's role in nuclear proliferation (and thus global destablization)
Bolo Boffin
Dec 2011
#32
“Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people...
Ian David
Dec 2011
#76
Whether Hitchens was for or against the Iraq war made no fucking difference
Burma Jones
Dec 2011
#95
limbaugh and sons, with 1000 coordinated radio stations and paid callers, endorsed by our universiti
certainot
Dec 2011
#119
The US government chose to go to war without any input from Hitchens.
ChadwickHenryWard
Dec 2011
#110
no one heard hitchens compared to team limbaugh, the real chickenhawk cheerleaders for iraq attack
certainot
Dec 2011
#116
Hitchens was wrong like so many in his assessment of the Iraq war, however, he did not vote or make
Pisces
Dec 2011
#141
Hitchens had a tart tongue and was 100% wrong about the war, but was often right on issues
REP
Dec 2011
#144
So *, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc. played no part in taking us to war?
laconicsax
Dec 2011
#149
Let it die, folks, DTTO has been evicted from the thread by virtue of two hidden posts. n/t
Ms. Toad
Dec 2011
#170