It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Hitchens asserts that claims about Hussein's weapons of mass destruction are factual based on available evidence. He emphasizes that rational thought confirms the truth of these charges.
- In plain terms
- The accusations against Hussein regarding weapons are true and obvious to thinkers.
- What can you take from it?
- Facts should be accepted when evidence supports them.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What counts as obvious truth?
- Who decides what is evident?
Another view
It relies on evidence that may later be disputed.
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