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I was in the audience in NYC for this

i wonder if anyone was paid to post this, and i wonder who wouldnt see this for what it is. i feel underestimated :( to be useful, this propaganda needs to be WAY more subtle. this has the opposite effect friend.

Hitchens really tarnished his legacy when he supported & justified the Iraq War, shame

It's incredibly sad that Hitchens passed before Galloway. Such a great man taken from us too soon, and such a sorry excuse surviving him. I'm very happy that Mr Galloway lost his seat in parliament in the 2024 general elections.

Hitchens as short sighted and wrong as his atheistic views.

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Im a fan of hitchens but he was wrong on this one

Let's not forget back in 1994 Galloway saluted Sadam Hussain in his heyday with the words, 'i salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability!'. I think that tells us alot about Galloway, regardless of his motivations and his political ideals how can u possibly say that about an evil, Hitler like tyrant like Sadam

God it gets worse with Hitchens - selective memory and utterly pathetic.

Hitchens, who I did admire, completely demolished by Galloway.

Interesting

Hitchens 20 years later: 🤯

As important a debate as it was 2 decades ago. One thing that stood out, to the discredit of Hitchens, was his frequent warning to objectors "you are on TV" - similar anti free speech pressure is being put on pro Palestinian demonstrators today.

I regret to say that history has proven Hitchens to be plainly in the wrong on this one. The "War Against Terror" remains an absurd and unwinnable debacle costing billions in taxpayer dollars each year while giving pretext to the clandestine erosion of our civil liberties by Congress and the White House, foolhardy U.S. military intervention in the Middle East only further unbalanced the region's precipitous political stability and brought conditions conducive to the local fermentation and global spread of extremist Jihadist movements against the West, and the domestic fallout of these failed boyish adventures launched ostensibly in the name of democracy has, unsurprisingly, contributed to feelings of growing weariness toward traditional institutions of state and political power that threaten the viability of the Western World's two-centuries-long experiment with the Enlightenment values of empiricism, objectivism, and liberalism. I often wonder: if Hitch were alive today, would he offer a single repenting statement or sentiment of regret regarding his partial embrace then of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and other Neo-cons? That a near-death Hitchens, in some of his final public comments, began questioning the purpose, necessity, and morality of the U.S.'s post-911 crusade of vengeance and retribution lends me some hope the man would've come full circle and awoken to this bamboozlement had he lived.

Christopher Hitchens is a racist, blood thirsty, imperialist propagandist. Lies upon lies. No surprise history has proven him wrong. Christopher needed his notes but George only needed the truth.

I heard a short part of Hitchins and then just forwarded past his BS and listened only to George Galloway

Could have been the whiskey talking. So sad to see Hitchen's on the side of Kissinger's war criminal legacy, and Bush's response to NOLA. Then came 2008, crash, then Bush's 3rd term. 20 years in Afghanistan, I'm sure the roads are fine and they are enjoying the billions in arms we presented them with upon the army corp's ugly exit. We can only imagine how Hitch's views would have evolved in 20 years, we still have George riding high on this legacy.

I don't understand one thing. Seeing hitchens, the so-called intellectual debater, on the wrong side of the history and even after being proven some fanboys still cheering for him. And these same guys says religious people are irrational! Irony is dead!

I couldn’t understand why the students couldn’t say the present comes from the future. Time is always moving from the future to the present to the past.

As much as I admire Hitch (and history has proven him so wrong on Iraq) his disenguinity is so palpable on so many points. Galloway is far more not interested into getting into the ethics while Hitchens too often luxuriates around the rhetoric of debate.

I happen to have served in Lebanon, and can tell you that Galloway is wrong on this issue (it does not follow that he's wrong on the others, but at least in the area which I can speak about, he is wrong, and - should anyone so wish - can explain in 5 sentences).

This is a real politician its a great disservice that George was outcast

Thank you George Galloway for all the selfless work u have done to help change the world . I recognize u

At this hour the clock started

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What a man . Incredible mind . Thank you for sharing .

So excited to hear this ... such a gem 💎

Christopher Hitchens was wrong on everything. Taliban is ruling after 20+ of US occupation and trillions of dollars spent. Iraq is now under Iranian control. Thank you George Galloway for sharing knowledge and not hyperbole.

@1:16:32 υγιως which is translated as “sanely” can also mean: sound, wholesome, wise, honourably and favourably amongst others (source Liddle, Scott, Jones Greek Lexicon)

Hitchens was right about everything, but Galloway's arguements are tailored to the stupid and therefore easier to digest for this audience.

Lol, Who's on first.

At 58 minutes it sounds like the perspective of a pathogen taking an airborne route. And they are nameless and call others by words we don't recognize as appointed names such as Me, Maybe, Now, How, When, Be, etc..

We need to take a moment to salute that translator who had to translate "Indefatigability" to Saddam.

i miss hichens sophistry and gaslighting he was a master charlatan in a sea of dull failures

The incredible thing is Galloway speaks with no notes.

It’s interesting to see how many apparent Saddam admirers there are in the comments. Scroll down enough and read views from actual Kurds at the time.

They are both ghastly self important ego-driven fools, without the first clue about what constitutes reality.

Hitchens glorious predictions of what the US would bless Iraq and the region with didnt age well, lol

Galloway's predictions, made 19 years ago, have proven to be correct. The UK parliament is lucky to have him among them again as of last week. The UK media have, as expected, been in a froth of rage over his election. As Amy Goodman implied, the media are in the Hitchens camp, the 1% camp. The only UK publication I am now comfortable reading is Private Eye.

This Galloway nut I see just got elected to Parliament, scary stuff. I don't have a lot of hope for the U.K. Meanwhile, in regards to the comments here saying that time has proven Hitchens wrong; I think the same could be said of the Hurricane Katrina stuff. In retrospect we now know it was not the failings of President Bush but that of the local government, especially the corrupt, racist then-Mayor of NOLA. Funny how time puts everything in perspective.

I admired Chris Hitchens but Galloway got the best of him here.

The opposites and strife point forward to Fichte and Hegel.

Galloway is a pathetic dictator-simp who hates the West and everything we stand for. Long live Hitchens.

Hitchens was so well spoken, sometimes you can skip the whole speech of the opponent but still gather what he said from Hitchens response. In this particular case, im very happy about that, Galloway always sounds like a pirate with 2 wooden legs, loosing his balance and trying to find it again and again. Its unbearable.

why was Hitchens so rabidly antagonistic towards Islam but had absolutely nothing nearly as bad to say about its brothers Judaism and Christianity? As if they all aren't equally rotten, at least by now, thanks to those who hijacked them for their own gain. I used to like the guy but realize he's just another pretentious stooge for empire. He obviously wasn't very astute or as knowledgeable as he pretended to to be. to have been trying to justify the Iraq war when it was clearly based on lies cooked up by the western warmongerers in order to invade and steal their resources. you can't be a public intellectual with such elitist and deranged views and ideas like that. Galloway has been vindicated.

Oof hitchens got roasted 😬

after 20 years of this debate. let's not sugar coat it. it's obvious Hitchens was not only was wrong but a bribed academic. Taliban took over Afghanistan AGAIN. Iraq went back to middle ages, the region is still destabilized which caused civil wars. Scandals on how companies corrupted the area and stole money. If you ask any Iraqi, including fierce anti Saddam, they'd tell you the days of Saddam were gold compared to these days and 10 times better. Hitchens was lucky to die that early, if he's alive today, with the way he was descending, we'd see atheist Hitchens siding with far right groups and sitting with Ben Shapiro advocating like all atheist Zionists how God gave a birth right to Zionists in Palestine.

1:44:50 Just listen to George's prediction 19 years ago. "Iran will answer in Iraq".

1:37:00 Hitchens really was clueless here. Mentioning the attributes of the Kabul Kandahar highway. It's like saying the Brits looted and plundered India for 200 years but at least they built them a highway and taught them English language.

1:33:00 George lands a final blow to this Hack warmonger.