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Permalink Reply by bob spencer on December 18, 2011 at 12:30pm

lets not forget Hitch wanted a sovereign Kurdistan state.That's why he wore that little lapel badge

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on December 18, 2011 at 12:59am

Being a freethinker does not exclude you from the possibility of being a ass-hat.  Not saying he was or wasn't. Just pointing out the flaw in that premise. Often times, ass-hattery is in the eye of the beholder.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Baker on December 18, 2011 at 7:46am

So true. I was thinking about the people who have been heroes at times in my life, Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Picasso... All achieved things I will always be inspired by and admire. As far as being good people... not so much. 

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on December 20, 2011 at 4:30pm

Yep! People are people and I even hesitate to classify them as simply good or bad, though some deserve such distinctions.  I think most people are generally good, though often can be jerks or hold bad beliefs.

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Permalink Reply by Hey Zeus on December 22, 2011 at 12:46am

So I can be a bastard and good?

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Permalink Reply by Jason Paisley on December 18, 2011 at 1:55am

Hitch saw Saddam Hussein as a dictator who needed to be dealt with. However if a people have not the courage to rise up and repel their dictators then what are we to do? What are we to do?

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on December 18, 2011 at 1:57am

You are to mind your own business.

That is if the other alternative is to outdo Saddam Hussein in killing his own people with a ratio of 100 to 1.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on December 18, 2011 at 8:13am

Eh? So you are essentially claiming that the US killed upwards to 200 million Iraqis, or approx 10x the total population of the country?

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on December 18, 2011 at 8:36am

Seriously you want to go quarreling about the precise number? You go ahead, make a proposal, I won't even bother to respond since it is guaranteed to be self-defeating beforehand.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on December 18, 2011 at 8:39am

Well, you brought it up, but I get now that, rather unsurprisingly, it was only demagogic rhetoric and not a point you are willing to argue or stick by.

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on December 18, 2011 at 8:49am

That's not a number, that's a bunch of unimpressive words lacking in substance.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on December 18, 2011 at 9:02am

Then you surely must find it familiar  :)

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