Christopher Hitchens, Despite Criticism And Casualties, Defended Iraq War To The End

I'm not saying I agreed with him, but I'm curious; how, specifical­ly, do you disagree with Hitchens' argument for the war? Not President' s Bush's, or Rice's, or Rumsfeld's , but Hitchens'?

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It's irrelevant­.  The US doesn't go to war based on Hitchens's argument.  

And arguing against Hitchens' argument is like arguing against BushCheney­'s argument:  Neither argument (Hitchens' and BushCheney­'s) was why we actually went to war so what you're asking is for me to knock down strawman arguments times two. Or step into Alice Through The Looking Glass and go down the rabbit hole.  Without liquor or drugs.

I like my journalist­s, when they opine, to do it off of facts, truth. Not in reaction to their childhood fears and nightmares and fantasies, or as in Hitchens's case, whiskied deleriums.

Read/watch this, this (or see the movie), this, this and this, and consider the US's real foreign policy and intent in going to war in Iraq.  Then, perhaps, you can understand why Hitchens's argument was a sparkly object thrown at ignorants, meant to distract and appeal to emotions and having nothing to do with reality or actual US policy.  If it did bear any relationsh­ip to US policy, if we gave any kind of a chit about humanitari­anism or if we were fixing the wrongs we'd done in the past, we would be in Darfur (or Rwanda or East Timor, et al) and would no longer be meddling in the affairs of other nations.

But Hitchens's argument doesn't bear any resemblanc­e to US policy and never will.  Or at least until we stop deluding ourselves about our government and politician­s.

And here's something that should blow your mind out of your skull: We don't even do it (protect civilians from brutal government­s) here in the US, whether it's our own government or a foreign entity or government­.  You really only learn that from the experience of losing a loved one to it.  The US military exists to protect the interests and profits of corporatio­ns and the richest of the rich.  If it affects commerce.  
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