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Offline franksolich

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No regrets from a crusty left-wing curmudgeon
« on: January 19, 2009, 06:40:48 PM »
http://www.slate.com/id/2209133/?GT1=38001

Oh my.

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No Regrets: Why I'm not sorry that George W. Bush beat Al Gore and John Kerry.

By Christopher Hitchens

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In his farewell interviews, President Bush hasn't been able to find much to say for himself on this point, but I think it's a certainty that historians will not conclude that the removal of Saddam Hussein was something that the international community ought to have postponed any further. (Indeed, if there is a disgrace, it is that previous administrations left the responsibility undischarged.)

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Inescapable as it is, "compared to what?" isn't much of a defense. And nor has this column been intended exactly as a defense, either. It's just that there's an element of hubris in all this current hope-mongering and that I am beginning to be a little bit afraid to think of what Wednesday morning will feel like.
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Re: No regrets from a crusty left-wing curmudgeon
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2009, 08:29:06 PM »
Hitchens loves to pee in the kool aid doesn't he? :-)

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Re: No regrets from a crusty left-wing curmudgeon
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2009, 08:29:50 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on January 19, 2009, 08:29:06 PM
Hitchens loves to pee in the kool aid doesn't he? :-)



And then drink the glass just to prove he's a man.
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