Heh. Hitchens is getting sick of Bush

[charlie]

The Chimp's gooberisms must've reached a critical mass too big for Hitch to bear. He's still a bitter ender on Iraq, but now he really wants you to know he doesn't think much of Dubya. He opens an article, ostensibly about Vietnam, with this:

How do I dislike President George Bush? Let me count the ways. Most of them have to do with his contented assumption that 'faith' is, in and of itself, a virtue. This self-satisfied mentality helps explain almost everything, from the smug expression on his face to the way in which, as governor of Texas, he signed all those death warrants without losing a second's composure.

It explains the way in which he embraced ex-KGB goon Vladimir Putin, citing as the basis of a beautiful relationship the fact that Putin was wearing a crucifix. (Has Putin been seen wearing that crucifix before or since? Did his advisers tell him that the President of the United States was that easy a pushover?)

It also explains the unforgivable intervention that Bush made into the private life of the Schiavo family: leaving his Texas ranch to try and keep 'alive' a woman whose autopsy showed that her brain had melted to below flatline a long time before. Here is a man who believes the 'jury' is still 'out' on whether we evolved as a species, who regards stem cell research as something profane, who affects the odd belief that Islam is 'a religion of peace'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2156398,00.html

A fun little skewering from Bush's drunken defender. But note what he finds most odious is the Preznit's religious piety, which oddly, is the subject of his latest book.

C'mon Hitch, you can do a lot better than that. A lot better. Unburden yourself, you idiot.

[rodeodance]

1. I think Hitch is dead on! (i refer to the material in the IP only)

.......C'mon Hitch, you can do a lot better than that. A lot better. Unburden yourself, you idiot.

[youngdem]

2. Hitchens: As smart as he is drunk.

He's very right on most of the time.

[Mr Rabble]

3. Not he CAN NOT do better than that.

This guy is a boot licker of power. Always has been, always will be.

How else can his continued acceptance be explained?
It sure isn't due to his uncanny ability to be correct about world events.:sarcasm:

[EST]

4. Thank you for posting this.

Although I have little in common and little respect for the views of Mr. Hitchens, I must admit, for the most part he is one hundred percent spot on.

"the Vietnam War was at best a titanic blunder and at worst a campaign of atrocity and aggression."
The united States has a nearly unblemished record of atrocity and aggression at least since world war two. We have salved our consciences by compartmentalizing that behavior as what the military and the government do, with a separate department, or many, many organizations, which attend to humanitary needs.

The gubmit kills and maims them, destroying entire societies, and the humanistic organization--which used to include churches and religions--do the heartbreaking work of trying to relieve pain and suffering and trying to restore a tiny bit of what's lost.
Most Americans remain blissfully unaware of the horrors wreaked upon other nations and peoples on this planet by our government and by other governments with which our government allied.
Hitchens may be a drunken, sorry sot, but even form his pen can flow truth and enlightenment, on occasion.

[UTUSN]

5. Now that Mother Teresa is a non-believer, Histopher has to upgrade his estimate of her n/t