I like Hitchens (C) mostly because he just refuses to pull his punches.

I don't actually disagree too with him on the War in Iraq either.

I opposed the war because all the reasons given were wrong. We went to Iraq because of a personal grudge of Bush, not because Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and needed to be removed.

The religious civil war that's raging in Iraq now is a direct result of our intervention and I think far too few people take responsibilities for their actions nowadays, preferring to blame someone else.

Well, we (as a country) made this mistake, and we are all responsible for fixing it, and running away sends entirely the wrong message. Unfortunately the thing Iraq needs is the one thing that the current crop of politicians will never give it, a true secular state with full freedoms even at the expense of local religious "imperatives".