"But when someone they hold in high esteem for being an atheist--Hitchens--goes and says he supports that war and the man who broke every law in the book to wage it, "oh--he was really a great guy. I don't expect to be in agreement with him on everything, you know."

If I fell out with everybody who disagreed with me, I would very soon have no friends at all. Any sentient human being will at times hold views, which appear plain wrong to others. I have the right to be wrong sometimes - and so did Christopher Hitchens. People who fail to grasp this principle are going to find it pretty tough to keep up any sort of a dialogue.

For the record josepp, I think Hitchens was wrong on the issue of the Iraq War and I think Bush led a motley coven of crooks into it. That should be an unambiguous enough statement of where I stand.