He didn& #39;t just support the Iraq War, he relished it, applauded it, wrote books defending it.

He seemed to fantasise about fighting and killing, describing his "exhilaration" after 9/11 and "Osama Bin Laden did us a favour". Of course he never actually got off his armchair.

His attacks on & #39;Religion& #39; were ignorant & intellectually dishonest.

The pits was arguing Martin Luther King was "in no real [...] sense a Christian."

While Stalin& #39;s regime, that murdered tens of thousands of Christians to enforce & #39;scientific atheism& #39;, was really "religious".

Attacking & #39;religion& #39; in the ordinary sense e.g. Christians, Muslims, and then switching to an obscure private definition e.g. Stalin& #39;s USSR was & #39;religious& #39;, is a classic dishonest rhetorical trick. In Orwell& #39;s words,

His big book of anti-Religion was rammed with factual errors that displayed his ignorance on history, philosophy, theology, etc. Here& #39;s a random selection of a few of them.

But he was a consistent opponent of totalitarianism!

Except when he was quite fond of it. Like Lenin whose "great achievements" included "a secular Russia" and Trotsky who had a "faint, saintly penumbra".

The fact they invented totalitarianism and butchered millions is meh.

What Hitchens was great at was entertaining abuse - Polemic. But most of the time polemic is just propaganda.

It& #39;s a sophist& #39;s fallacy to think because writing is entertaining that means it& #39;s more right.

Oh, and he said some sensible things about 90& #39;s politics. That& #39;s about it.