////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.////

I'm not talking about being wrong. I'm talking about a fundamental moral failure. The real reason Hitchens supported Bush is because he saw himself in the man--big ego, big talker, always right and no chance that he'll ever change his mind no matter what happens. Hitchens saw nothing wrong with invading another sovereign nation even if Bush had to fabricate charges to do it. And all the murder, torture, brutality, degradation and thievery that resulted was all acceptable in order to achieve an outcome that at best was disastrous. I have absolutely no respect for anyone who thinks that way. I don't how anyone could. For someone everyone here is telling was so intelligent and so very witty, then he understood perfectly well what the Iraq War was all about and so there is no excuse.