Christopher Hitchens restates case for Iraq War

SlavesandBulldozers

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Wed Nov-05-03 01:27 PM
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Christopher Hitchens restates case for Iraq War

http://slate.msn.com/id/2090772/

thoughts?

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smirkymonkey

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Wed Nov-05-03 01:30 PM
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1. Yes...

Christopher Hitchens is a wet-brain alcoholic. Pay no attention to him. :D

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chapter32

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Wed Nov-05-03 06:32 PM
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5. Absolutely...

He is not easy to read ideologically. How he feels about an issue frequently depends on how many rounds he's had bought for him and by whom.

He referred to Bill Clinton as a psychopath on MSNBC Hardball show.

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papau

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Wed Nov-05-03 01:39 PM
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2. Liberal Brookings Inst warns on overstating anti-war case inthis DU thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=19722

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JeebusH

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Wed Nov-05-03 01:43 PM
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3. saying sorry is the hardest thing to do ...

and admitting your wrong too

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bemildred

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Wed Nov-05-03 01:46 PM
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4. Hitchens and Paglia should get together

Edited on Wed Nov-05-03 02:21 PM by bemildred

and discuss their butt-covering strategy. Bill Bennett
could collaborate with them too.

Seriously, Hitchens has about as much credibility as
Jimmy Swaggart, he is a whore who bet wrong. I find
his soi-disant moral posturing particularly annoying.

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The Magistrate

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Wed Nov-05-03 07:43 PM
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6. Hitchens. My Friend

Proved so committed to the right in the attempted coup against President Clinton that nothing, not even his polemics against Kissinger, could conceivably save him. He is an unmitigated failure as a human being....

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bemildred

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Wed Nov-05-03 08:04 PM
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8. Good gracious, Sir.

:thumbsup:

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The Magistrate

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Wed Nov-05-03 08:09 PM
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9. Even My Studied Tolerance, Sir, Has its Limits....

"Everything he says is a lie, even 'and' and 'the'."

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Darranar

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Wed Nov-05-03 07:51 PM
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7. I think it's a load of junk...

where are those weapons of mass destruction now, Mr. Hitchens? What did we disarm him of?

And no, Saddam was too secular to have close relationships with the jihadists; just because they are both striking coalition forces doesn't mean that they're allied.

And the situation now is far different from the situation before the war; what may be an allaince of neccesity now what not neccesarily so before this travesty.

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edzontar

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Fri Nov-07-03 01:39 PM
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10. The man is an ass....

A stinking, drunken, failed, pathetic, back-stabbing, bigoted ass.

I shall not soil this thread with any more of my "thoughts" concerning this war-mongering pig.

Except to propose that he air-dropped into the most treacherous section of Tikrit, at night, unarmed, etc.

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dudeness

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Fri Nov-07-03 02:48 PM
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11. Hitchens has certainly raised the ire of the Magistrate

of which I am in total agreement..having never paid much regard to the man or his musings, I did however, enjoy a passage in Martin Amis's wonderful book "koba the dread" in which he referred to times that hitchens and others would sell copies of "socialist worker" on the streets of London..tickled my fancy that..

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