Charles Krauthammer reveals he has only weeks to live.

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I'll regard his passing the same as he did the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths he lustfully extolled.

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This is sad. Being in my 20s I can't imagine what it's like knowing how close your passing is. He is around the age of my father. I wish him peace in his final days.

I'll regard his passing the same as he did the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths he lustfully extolled.

What is your problem? It seems like you cannot even give due consideration to the death or misfortune of someone without digging up the "bad things" about them. I recall how you did the exact same thing to Barbara Bush when news of her death was posted here.

It's become a tenet of the far left that if you ever acknowledge the pain of or extend condolences to anyone you disagree with then you are suddenly a bad liberal, so we're going to see edgelord posts highlighting people's shortcomings in about 80% of threads about people dying from now on.

“shortcomings”

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One of the most interesting elements of the last few years has been the worst elements on both sides really letting the mask slip.

Anyway, RIP to one of the foremost conservative intellectuals of my lifetime. When he passes, he won't be easily replaced.

What did he say or do that made him an 'intellectual'?

He crapped out a column once a week.

A reminder that Charles Krauthammer--he of such towering intellect--was a steadfast supporter of the Iraq surge even by the end of the last decade.

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One of the most interesting elements of the last few years has been the worst elements on both sides really letting the mask slip.

Anyway, RIP to one of the foremost conservative intellectuals of my lifetime. When he passes, he won't be easily replaced.

What did he say or do that made him an 'intellectual'?

He crapped out a column once a week.

A reminder that Charles Krauthammer--he of such towering intellect--was a steadfast supporter of the Iraq surge even by the end of the last decade.

So is he evil in his prescience of seeing how badly Iraq would turn out and wanting it to happen anyway, or is he a bad judge of the facts when it comes to current events?   Maybe get your grave-dancing justification straight here.

Uh, that isn't the brain-buster you think it is. The majority of neocon thinkers probably legitimately thought the Iraq War would be successful, but their vision of "success" was certainly evil in its foundations.

Charles Krauthammer was both a bad person with disastrous ideas and an incompetent judge of reality. Both things can be true!

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I agree with you that the Iraq War as a huge mistake and inflicted unspeakable suffering on innocent Iraqis, but I'm not sure its fair to put their blood on his hands. Save that stuff for the administration that sold and started it.

The Bush administration's efforts in selling their lies were aided significantly by the reporting and column space of the New York Times and Washington Post. That's... pretty much the point here.

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Reason?! You need a reason to show even token amount of compassion for someone made in the image of God dying of a a horrid disease? Good grief.

They don't believe in the image of God. They don't believe in God. They don't believe in universal sin or inherent fallibility. They believe that they are good and those who disagree are evil and it's as simple as that and can't believe everyone else doesn't see it that way.

No, I don't believe in any of these things, but I don't know what that has to do with being honest about Krauthammer's near-genocidal foreign policy beliefs that he espoused for decades as a career.

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Reason?! You need a reason to show even token amount of compassion for someone made in the image of God dying of a a horrid disease? Good grief.

They don't believe in the image of God. They don't believe in God. They don't believe in universal sin or inherent fallibility. They believe that they are good and those who disagree are evil and it's as simple as that and can't believe everyone else doesn't see it that way.

No, I don't believe in any of these things, but I don't know what that has to do with being honest about Krauthammer's near-genocidal foreign policy beliefs that he espoused for decades as a career.

Industrial Justice?

I'll bet you've never worked a day in your life at a dirty or dangerous job.

Interesting that you would surmise this from my expressed opinion on, of all things, Charles Krauthammer's WaPo column. Interesting, but bizarre.

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Krauthammer had no insider knowledge about Iraq. He believed the evidence he was presented along with the vast majority of Americans, including two of the last three Democratic nominees for President.

"I'm glad he's dying of cancer because he believed the evidence the President presented and argued for it in his columns" is not a better look for you.

It wasn’t difficult at all to see what was happening if you had even a rudimentary understanding of America’s history in foreign policy. I would normally be surprised that a Harvard Medical School graduate couldn’t put two and two together, but then again, the massacres in Iraq were exactly what he wanted. That’s the point.