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@elgar104 I think you might find he does when it comes to individuals who can,and do, harm many people. A few examples of this are Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton.
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great admirer of hitch. but he doesn't apply the same moral rigour when considering the actions of a nation as he does for individuals....
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All very good and well Hitch, but you went to bed with the people who gave Hussain the WMD in the first place.
I remember a demonstration in London in the 80s when Saddam came to visit Thatcher.
Rumsfeld was in Regan's cabinet at the rime I believe.
I am glad you were in the USA to keep it focused on sane. However please do not try to fudge the motive of your bed fellows, The war was for full spectrum hegemony, especially control of oil.
else it would have been other states first through the UN.
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I don't believe he's necessarily defending neocon ideals. His view of it, I believe, is that Saddam deserved to be removed, period. They didn't need any more justification than that Saddam was who he was and ran the kind of regime he did. Hitchens in particular seems to have a very deep sympathy for the Kurdish people, and as they were so often victimized by Saddam, I believe that especially fueled his approval of the war, executed through lies though it was.
BigMikeMcBastard 2 years ago 5
Hitchens point, is that if you like Bush Sr and his adm, make up justifications and lies (Kuwaiti baby's in incubators murdered by Iraqi soldiers) in order to hide your own indirect guilt (weapon sales, early support for Baath Party/Saddam and so on...)
None of that changes the necessity to force Saddam to retreat and give back Kuwaiti independence! Thus the "cause" itself was still just. It only changes how we should view Bush Sr and his adm for the lies and their earlier decisions/x2standard!
ZedRange 2 years ago 3