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To: alanrs who wrote (308302)	6/3/2009 2:15:54 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793912

Chris Hedges is a leftist poseur alway parading his moral superiority. I wouldn't believe him if he told me water was wet.

To: alanrs who wrote (308302)	6/3/2009 5:08:44 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793912

Alan...Others died to protect this guy's right to be a H'sA...I can't think of anything about him that I would admire. Not a single thing. >>>>>>>>>Chris Hedges… en.wikipedia.org >>>>>He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University during the academic year of 1998-1999, and spent a year studying classics. In addition to English, he speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and knows Latin and ancient Greek. He has written for numerous publications including The Nation, Foreign Affairs, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Mother Jones, New Humanist and Robert Scheer's web magazine Truthdig where he publishes a column every Monday. Hedges was an early and vocal critic of the plan to invade and occupy Iraq. He questioned the rationale for war by the Bush administration and was critical of the early press coverage, calling it "shameful cheerleading". On 2003-05-17, just two weeks after president George W. Bush's famous "Mission Accomplished" speech, Hedges delivered a commencement address at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, saying: "We are embarking on an occupation that, if history is any guide, will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige and power and security." Several hundred members of the audience booed and jeered his talk, although some applauded. Hedges' microphone was cut twice and two young men rushed the stage to try to prevent him from speaking. Hedges had to cut short his address and was escorted off campus by security officials before the ceremony was over. An editorial in The Wall Street Journal denounced Hedges for his anti-war stance. His employer, "The New York Times," criticized his statements and issued him a written reprimand for "public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper's impartiality." The paper's editors demanded Hedges cease speaking about the Iraq war. Hedges, refusing to accept these restrictions, left The New York Times to become a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, write books and teach. Hedges has stated that he is not a pacifist and supports humanitarian interventions, such as those in Bosnia and Kosovo, designed to stop campaigns of genocide. He nevertheless describes war as "the most potent narcotic invented by humankind". Hedges states that his outlook is influenced by moral writers and ethicists such as George Orwell, Samuel Johnson, Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti and theologians such as William Stringfellow, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Abraham Heschel, and Reinhold Niebuhr. On December 29, 2008, Hedges wrote a column for Truthdig, in which he identified himself as a socialist[1].<<<<<<<<<<