I'm the guy who made the Hitchens Iraq War Hitchslap video and I have never seen this interview. Thank you for posting. I wish I would have had this video when I was making my compilation.
+blueshirttail You did a good job. It is, in my humble opinion, just as good as the religion hitchslaps videos. Too many people who like his anti-religion rhetorics, hate his pro-solidarity tensions.
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Galloway's arguments always begin with the claim that war is too high a price to pay to be free of tyranny. But then given enough time he will eventually begin to argue in support of fighting in defence of tyranny. As he has done with the Assad regime in Syria.
Yea he’s a scumbag obviously. He is the friend of totalitarian dictators everywhere, as long as those dictators have declared war on America. Syria is just one example.
Lol he was always was😅 . I think he was the kind of drinker that bounced back easily. I mean with the amount he drank i don’t see how he could NOT be that kind of drinker.
This interviewer is trying so hard to catch Hitchens in hypocrisy, im glad to see his attempts were just as futile as every other interviewer I have seen in the same pursuit
History has been GG's best judge. Look what has happened in Iraq since 2006? There have been about 1,000,000 dead in Iraq since this interview and western intervention in the region. I agree with much of what Chris used to say but on this issue he's been proven wrong.
numbersix100 And if they intervention hadn't taken place, Saddam Husseins regime would still have imploded and those casuality numbers would have been higher bevause of the number of foreign states like Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia tearing Iraq to pieces in order to install their own puppet regimes, claim the oil and also attempt to finally destroy the kurds in the north. Can you imagine how Iraq would look like if the intervention hadn't taken place? Several insurgency groups and actual nation-states fighting to make Iraq their own "colony" and use it's oil to fund their own theocratic agenda. Instead, aside from all the misstakes that has been made, Iraq is a democracy and it's president is a Kurd. The Iraqi people deserve a fighting chance but instead the west decided to listen to the "anti war" movement and decided to again betray Iraq and leave it to die. The people who felt so smug after the retraction of troops from Iraq are truly vile in their lack of solidarity and their indirect support for theocratic totalitarianism.
Am I Left or Right? My sympathies with you, Sir. It's rare to find someone who is able to see some point of distinction between bemoaning the clerical-fascistic degeneration of parts of today's Iraq and maintaining that S. Hussein's regime was a threat in itself, one that required action. Too much complacent superficiality circulates on this topic nowadays.
Bajro - Nuhanovic I'm gratefull for your sympathy. It's still striking how so many people today will believe that if Iraq had been left alone, everything would have turned out better than it did. This is outrageously ignorant. One thing I forgot to mention is that the leadership of Iraq was to be passed on from Saddam Hussein to one of his sons, a pair of vicious, bloodthirsty biastophiliacs. That would have been a sight to behold. Not to mention that this would have led to on of the most horrific, gorefilled powerstruggles in modern times. Imagine: these two butchering everyone around them in order to be the one to sit upon the throne of power that was built upon the corpses of the iraqi people. It's enough to give you nightmares.
Am I Left or Right? That is all hypothetical....Iraq is a mess today, we have spent over $4 trillion over there for nothing. Not a penny back, and over a million Iraqi's dead....Hussein would still be in power today, no question about it. The only good thing that happened out of the war was the Iraqi-Kurds gaining autonomy in the country. However Turkish-Kurds are still be slaughtered in South East Turkey,(our Ally) largely with arms sold by the U.S. and Syrian-Kurds are being killed as well by Assad's forces....there was very little good that came out of the war...except large defense and oil contractors making a bundle over there....
From 2003 to 2020 the number of civilian causalities was about 235,000 people at most, for it to have a 1,000,000 people between 2003-2011 would have meant that over 200 people were killed everyday. That didn't happen. The overwhelming majority of those murders was conducted by the al-qaeda-Baathist insurgency. And obama abandonment at 2011 against the advice of his entire administration at the time and all republicans in Congress and some democrats. Which led to the vaccum where isis were able to form, which could have been prevented.
I'm the guy who made the Hitchens Iraq War Hitchslap video and I have never seen this interview. Thank you for posting. I wish I would have had this video when I was making my compilation.
+blueshirttail You did a good job. It is, in my humble opinion, just as good as the religion hitchslaps videos. Too many people who like his anti-religion rhetorics, hate his pro-solidarity tensions.
Thank you for that video. I'm seemingly one of the few people around that supported, and still does, the 2003 liberation of Iraq.
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Galloway's arguments always begin with the claim that war is too high a price to pay to be free of tyranny. But then given enough time he will eventually begin to argue in support of fighting in defence of tyranny. As he has done with the Assad regime in Syria.
Yea he’s a scumbag obviously. He is the friend of totalitarian dictators everywhere, as long as those dictators have declared war on America. Syria is just one example.
He's even more of a badass with that beard. Miss the great Hitch.
Jesus, lord above(sic) how dishy and handsome is Hitch here! 😍
first time seeing this. thank you for posting. viva la hitch!
haven't seen this one. thanks for the upload!
Hitchens looks like he's experiencing a massive hangover here. Lol
Lol he was always was😅 . I think he was the kind of drinker that bounced back easily. I mean with the amount he drank i don’t see how he could NOT be that kind of drinker.
This interviewer is trying so hard to catch Hitchens in hypocrisy, im glad to see his attempts were just as futile as every other interviewer I have seen in the same pursuit
He was just asking some pertinent questions. It was a good interview, I thought.
History has been GG's best judge. Look what has happened in Iraq since 2006? There have been about 1,000,000 dead in Iraq since this interview and western intervention in the region. I agree with much of what Chris used to say but on this issue he's been proven wrong.
numbersix100
And if they intervention hadn't taken place, Saddam Husseins regime would still have imploded and those casuality numbers would have been higher bevause of the number of foreign states like Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia tearing Iraq to pieces in order to install their own puppet regimes, claim the oil and also attempt to finally destroy the kurds in the north. Can you imagine how Iraq would look like if the intervention hadn't taken place? Several insurgency groups and actual nation-states fighting to make Iraq their own "colony" and use it's oil to fund their own theocratic agenda. Instead, aside from all the misstakes that has been made, Iraq is a democracy and it's president is a Kurd. The Iraqi people deserve a fighting chance but instead the west decided to listen to the "anti war" movement and decided to again betray Iraq and leave it to die. The people who felt so smug after the retraction of troops from Iraq are truly vile in their lack of solidarity and their indirect support for theocratic totalitarianism.
Am I Left or Right? My sympathies with you, Sir. It's rare to find someone who is able to see some point of distinction between bemoaning the clerical-fascistic degeneration of parts of today's Iraq and maintaining that S. Hussein's regime was a threat in itself, one that required action. Too much complacent superficiality circulates on this topic nowadays.
Bajro - Nuhanovic
I'm gratefull for your sympathy. It's still striking how so many people today will believe that if Iraq had been left alone, everything would have turned out better than it did. This is outrageously ignorant. One thing I forgot to mention is that the leadership of Iraq was to be passed on from Saddam Hussein to one of his sons, a pair of vicious, bloodthirsty biastophiliacs. That would have been a sight to behold. Not to mention that this would have led to on of the most horrific, gorefilled powerstruggles in modern times. Imagine: these two butchering everyone around them in order to be the one to sit upon the throne of power that was built upon the corpses of the iraqi people. It's enough to give you nightmares.
Am I Left or Right? That is all hypothetical....Iraq is a mess today, we have spent over $4 trillion over there for nothing. Not a penny back, and over a million Iraqi's dead....Hussein would still be in power today, no question about it. The only good thing that happened out of the war was the Iraqi-Kurds gaining autonomy in the country. However Turkish-Kurds are still be slaughtered in South East Turkey,(our Ally) largely with arms sold by the U.S. and Syrian-Kurds are being killed as well by Assad's forces....there was very little good that came out of the war...except large defense and oil contractors making a bundle over there....
From 2003 to 2020 the number of civilian causalities was about 235,000 people at most, for it to have a 1,000,000 people between 2003-2011 would have meant that over 200 people were killed everyday. That didn't happen. The overwhelming majority of those murders was conducted by the al-qaeda-Baathist insurgency. And obama abandonment at 2011 against the advice of his entire administration at the time and all republicans in Congress and some democrats. Which led to the vaccum where isis were able to form, which could have been prevented.