As an atheist, Hitchens has been a hero of mine. THIS is one of the few areas where I have to depart from him. As a Veteran, I saw some of the horrors we visited upon the innocent people there in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was absolutely no reason for it other than for the profits or our war industry. I'm in the US and I'm deeply ashamed of my country and its foreign policies. Hitchens is completely wrong here and I'm very glad that Galloway is once again an MP and can speak for the weak and downtrodden. All our hopes are with you, George!
💯 This is the morally foggy phase of Hitchens’ intellectual life…he was utterly wrong and I believe it was because he had many close personal friends in Iraq affected by Saddam’s regime and he really wanted the US’ lies to be true…he’s also a hero of mine prior to this point but I see him as a sad, deluded, figure just chugging legs of Koolaid in this phase…RIP Hitch
You should also question his unbelief in our creator. You won't find the truth in ANY religion. They are ALL wrong. You must seek the truth for yourself THEN the spirit of truth will lead you into all truth. If your even interested in finding the answers to the hard questions.
But you didn't see the Kurds who were almost wiped out multiple times. You just saw the "poor" Arabs who were taking our girls as sex slaves. You're not advocating for poor people, you're just mad cause your government dealt you a shit hand. Saddam had to be removed otherwise he would've continued to do even worse things that he'd already done. Not only to us Kurds, but to your country as well.
@@Welsh2505 if it wasn’t so sad, it’d be funny. We spent trillions of dollars to replace them with themselves over 20 years - and that’s not too mention all the death & destruction 😢
An incredible, unforgettable line and one of the greatest bitch slaps in the history of debates. Even Hitchens must have been impressed. Galloway wiped the floor with Hitchens who had foolishly decided to switch his allegiances to the US empire in his twilight years. What a pitiful man he became.
What impresses most is George's huge capacity for information gathering, storage and instant retrieval. This feeds into his oration which then flows seamlessly. The man must have a photographic memory as well as total integrity. God bless you George.
Yes. It’s this…as @andrewjjbyrne has said…which contributes to how great a debator he is. To beat him you have to at the very least match his recall. Then after that you must match his great oration. Once you’re his equal or his superior in these areas then you have a chance, providing you actually know your subject from top to bottom.
Yeah I liked Hitchens on some issues but like Sam Harris he developed a full on irrational loathing of Islam that followed him everywhere and clouded his vision.
@@Xinjiekou_新街口_Station True, I noticed too many falling down the islamophobia hole just for some clout and money, and just started regurgitating whatever they are told. Straight brainrot.
@@minui8758 yes, and in complete contradiction to the 'war on terror' propaganda that followed the 11 Sep 2003 attack that sent the US collectively insane
The trick of Hitchens's rhetoric is that he pretends the west has reluctantly found itself as a disinterested observer of atrocities committed by a wild orient with the choice to intervene or not, but it does so magnanimously on occasion despite the misgivings of a naive domestic populace. What this ignores is the history the west has in constructing, supporting, and protecting these villains when it suits them and only combating them when it suits them. While the individuals and regimes targetted may certainly "deserve justice" it only happens in support of a program of neoliberal globalization which can only work as a poisonous cure and will continue to perpetuate the disease it claims to cure.
Hitch was very ill at that time. It wasn't long after this event he was diagnosed with a vicious cancer that took his life. I also noticed that Hitch did a 360 deg. change when he turned into a neocon.
Hitch never believed in the Iraq war, his hope was to save the Kurds. He lost because he knew he did only trying. It's the only time I've ever seen him betray his beliefs, but he did so for a noble reason. He was a great debater and a great man.
Telling that punchy quotes mean more to you than the detail and moral attention of Hitchens. Galloway has and always will shout about things which get him votes from peoples he takes advantage of, whilst simultaneously associating with the very worst and most vile of men, all in the name of undermining the countries which have given its people the right to speak freely, however whacky and disingenuous they are.
Now that man George is a man who knows how to fight. I've never listened to any other speaker that moves me like he does and causes me to want to be a better person.
I so much admired Chris Hichins in his early years...he did turn into a Slug 1in his later years...anAmerican DOOR MAT..So SAD,hitchin claim that G G lied to the US food for oil programme committee.. was shameful as GG wiped the floor with is two Zionist Jews interrogators (well worth watching)..and wipe the floor with Christopher on this occasion...l was so sad to see Hich end up mentally Disabled so....but George live on...Respect George
George is a traitor to his own people. I'm not sure which debate you watched but Christopher trounced him quite easily. In fact some would ask why Mr. Hitchens entertained this grifter.
GG also bases a great deal of his tirade in witless and infantile personal attacks on the opposing debater, Hitchens does this as well but at least with genuine wit. GG cannot even form a workable metaphor - "butterfly from slug?" - clearly not. I am always suspicious of those who belie their true natures with all that manic pressure of speech. cf; Hitler, Thatcher etc.@@lenpeyOn the issue itself Hitchens failed to recognise (at the time) that the muslim Middle East despises the secular countries of The Enlightenment more than they despise their own local oppressors. It is Nietzche's 'slave mentality' in extremis. Any opportunity to rid the world of a this extremist, despotic cancer is 'rational' and this means any state ruled by any religion or authoritarian dictatorship. Hitchens would have done well to focus even more on the Kurds - the single voice of progress in this medieval region.
I'm with you - but it's a clumsy retort - compare with any number of Hitchslaps and George looks lame. Hitchens was overly optimistic on the outcome of that war though. He thought that the people would socially evolve from their experience of Saddam's dictatorship and build something approaching a democracy. It was the recognition that too many people in the region have a dictatorship in their hearts and heads thanks to religion that made him so especially vehement about the ruinous nature of that particular brand of monotheism. @@user-di5el9ri1j
It is hard to get one over on Hitch…….but Mr. Galloway is a force to be reckoned with. He wiped the floor with Hitchens in his prime. Well done! Everyone needs an ass whooping every now & again to remain humble.
Somehow I'm still astonished, when I read comments like yours. I mean, I immediately ask myself:" Does this person speak of this video that can be watched above?" Just another case of people perceiving completely disparate realities, at least that is what appears to be going on for as long as I am willing to believe that you are conveying honestly your impression.
@@Ryan_Winter I have watched this entire video at least 5 - 10 times since it hit RUclips. Mr. Galloway wiped the floor with Hitchens. I am afraid I not the one who is deluded, mi amigo.
@@rickguerrero2282 Naw, Galloway could only dream of ever being on the same intellectual level as the late great Christopher Hitchens. Galloway will forever be only a deluded Muslim apologist.
@@Ryan_Winter If you can watch this video and be in agreement with Hitchens obsession with Anglo-American hegemony across the Muslims world, the foreign invasions and his promises of "keeping the Taliban out of power" "making Iraq a safer place" then you need your head checked by a specialist. The Taliban are more powerful than ever with billions of dollars worth of American weapons. The Iraq war created some of the most blood thirsty jihadi terrorists that had ever been seen in the world, and the made the region even more unstable. Seriously if you think Hitchens was right on all of this, even with the recent knowledge that foreign interventions by the west have been disasters (Libya? now a slave market for migrants to flow into Europe) then you actually need your brain checked out.
Now that the elites are openly playing their dirty games, covid, inflation, Ukraine and now Gaza they are more and more exposed and we see George was right all along.
Wow, in Hitch's preamble, when he described the situation where a state sacrifices it's sovereignty, he described the US! Hitch was, wrong about US/NATO interventions and definitely wrong about Galloway, he was _very_ wrong in this debate. Nowhere has a US/NATO intervention improved the lives of the people. As much as I agree with his views on gods and religion, he's always been very wrong in promoting and defending US imperialism.
I used to love Hitch, such a great orator. Claimed he was a Marxist at heart but turned into a neocon. Sad. Wonderful man. George didn't rise to the bait, he stood his ground.
Any chance either of you could tell me something about marxism that is terrible? Or are you meaning communism? Because I think if you actually read the work of marks and his stance on capitalism, working class people and the ruling classes maybe you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
Lmao, except changing his mind on Assad in Syria. All of you ideologues clap like seals whenever you see someone being anti west, and of course like Galloway, never shy away from siding with dictators so long as their anti west or anti Israel. It’s sad how predictable you all are.
Of course he doesn't, he's essentially a Muslim fundamentalist. Try getting them to consider anything outside of their medieval purview. You won't be able to.
Why is he a Chicken? He went to these places when they when were under these harsh regimes that’s why he’s sympathetic to people wanting to intervene to help the Kurds
@@9876bbb the same countries that the west destroyed in the first place by invading them. Maybe the west shouldnt kill people halfway across the world and you wont have fascist regimes
Ironically, all he did against religious opponents was joke and not really say anything of substance. We really gave Hitchens more credit than he deserved.
I been watching this debate every few weeks. Because it makes me better person. I love George Galloway because he use his life for a good cause. I think he hase found the purpose of living. I am proud of to know him and I promise that my kids and their kids will follow this right path no matter how hard it is. My prayers with you George and many George Galloways to come.
If only everybody could think like you world would be better place, who want taught his children the truth and the right path and sincerity which is the most important thing for us humans. Your CM is too old but i wanted to right my thought lol
I'm no fan of Galloway but Hitchens looked more impressive when he was up against the God squad with their weak arguments about belief. When he went up against Galloway he lost. Sorry Hitch fanboys.
To clarify: A Hitchslap is a strike across the the face of your opponent with fact or truism. It's not the same to simply lob a schoolyard insult at your opponent like Galloway. Anyone can do that.
How was he hitch slapped precisely? All Galloway could do was shout at him calling him “a butterfly turned into a slug” which is just cheap shot ad hominem, rant “damn you!” and allow the zoo noise booing in the audience. You notice when Galloway was getting booed over his apologetics for the 9/11 bombers saying “we” caused it (not the fanatical Muslims who feel they have god’s permission to kill anyone) Hitchens called for calm in the audience. And called him out over Assad’s brutal operations he called “heroic”. Think you need to watch this again.
@@stormhawk3319 Why did he call him "a butterfly turning into a slug"?? Did you hear what Galloway said before that?! Don't cherry pick words to prove a point! As for 9/11 then I find it very hard to believe that a bunch of uneducated tribal men living in some Tora Bora mountains who couldn't speak a word of English were able to hijack, takeover and fly a plane over the US shores who has the worlds best intelligence in the world without the knowledge of them or the American government? Ironically these so called "Islamists" uneducated tribal men were trained by the Americans for the Soviet war. While the mujahideen were backed by various countries and organisations, the majority of their support came from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Iran! United states being the main support! These very mujahids they knew very well whom they left behind unhinged and fully trained! 9/11 real perpetrators was the United SNAKES of America....Free Julian Assange he'll tell the world!
Watching this in the light of Israel’s genocide, and I feel disgusted by the lies and hypocrisies piled up in Hitchen’s speech, along with all those clapping for him.
Take A Moment My friend From Calgary Untruedaux Land. We are told by our media that the People of Gaza started the war. I'm a jewish atheist, never believed in any gods. I have PTSD after 28yrs in the RAF. Stay Safe Stay Safe and Stay Free May your god go with you 🙏
What in the fuck are you talking about? This world would be a much better place with more men and women like Hitchens! History has and will continue to be kind to him! You would do well to realign yourself on the right side of said history and leave your imbecility behind.
Hitch is much better when he sticks to religion bouth fine oritors. You don't have to agree with them but it's nice to see in a world were the sound bite is all matters.
When they spoke in the foyer, Galloway told Hitchens that his hands were shaking, which they were, and told him he needed another drink. Slapped him down before they even got started. I liked both men for different reasons.
Galloway is based, principled and humble before greater forces than himself. Hitchens has the arrogance, arbitrariness and hubris of the atheist. Galloway speaks from the soul; Hitchens from the cold intellect. This is why Galloway blows Hitchens out of the water in debates like these, and it's why his positions have been proven correct, while Hitchens' have proved disastrous.
I'm a huge admirer of Hitchens and miss him dearly but George won this one. Convincingly. Everyone who is a Hitchens fan should be fine with that as well. It shows that Hitchens is a human being with flaws and wrong from time to time no matter how intelligent or erudite he was. The important thing is that his argument is good-natured, sincere and thought out, even if it was wrong. We're not used to seeing him make misjudgements or lose debates. Maybe that's why it's a bit difficult to accept when you admire Hitchens. It's evident that he himself didn't take the loss very well either, because he isn't used to it. It's a compliment to him as a debater and orator.
@@the_furthest_reaches He used arguments. Shallowgay used only screams and insults. He was so lousy that his gibberish about "swamp of hatred" made the crow boo him, making him babble ten times "I believe" LOL
skepticaldemocrat You obviously didn’t listen, either because the sight of Galloway exposing your idol is too painful to witness, or perhaps because, much like the unapologetic moral degenerate Hitch, the rivers of innocent blood that continue to flow from this disaster count for little or nothing to you. The grotesque spectacle that was Hitch’s unwavering support of this massacre will forever stain his reputation.
Hitchens was giving lists of things happening in Iraq and Galloway just said America and uk is wrong so. I don’t see how Hitchens argument was thinner then Galloway
Youre so funny here... you smack him so bad with ur words and humor.... love it! Keep it up Mr. Galloway!! WHY YOU DIDNT TRY TO BECOME A LAWYER??? YOURE SO GREAT!!!! I DONT NEED to finish it to determine.... YOU won!!!!!!
One could argue that Hitch won the debate because he had the harder argument, selling out to the Bush Dictatorship as he did....WHY Hitch did it, I can only assume he was #1-Blackmail and/or #2-Bribed.
@@tommyodonovan3883 does it has something to do when he became a player in the impeachment process by signing an affidavit alleging that his erstwhile friend Sidney Blumenthal, a White House aide, who provided him with information disparaging Monica S. Lewinsky; this assertion contradicts Blumenthal's grand jury testimony?? Or something else?
How can you support Galloway on this? He spent 15 minutes insulting Hitchins and talking about the British war against colonies, he chatted about England and Ireland. AND NOT ONCE DID KUWAIT COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH. NOT ONCE. How do you criticize someone about invading Iraq and go WAY out of your way to avoid mentioning Kuwait. I don't get that. Are you okay with the wholesale genocide that would have taken place under Saddam?
I dont pick sides before a debate...but, as soon as the first comment ends, i know which one is a pathological, diabolical war monger and thats enough for me.
This is dynamite takedown of an alleged genius and demagogue to the us intelligences - I changed my view on Hitchens after this, he seemed scared of George to the extent that he handed out leaflets on the streets ahead of this in order to get a leg up with the audience. Top marks George
All the more impressive when you learn Galloway's family were from a working-class part of Dundee and he left school around 15 to start work so he never attended University. In contrast Hitchens was born into a middle-class family, was educated at a prep school then gained entry into Oxford University. How did Galloway develop the oratorical skill, critical thinking and depth of knowledge he has? When you listen to cabinet members from Westminster it makes you think that the universities only churn out identikit sheep of very little talent on their PPE courses.
I enjoy his oration, but its a shame he leant it to the causes he did. He's a Westerner who only lends his voice to the protection of Muslims. Is that going to be the future of our society? I hope not. I'm afraid he's stuck in the past.
@@dariussparkes7080 I take it you're a fan of democracy. American democracy, the finest democracy money can buy. Maybe you haven't noticed the massive and overwhelming corporate influence on government, giving us government of the people by and for the wealthy. We are ruled by unelected and largely unidentified oligarchs (or whatever the non-foreign version is), an anonymous dictatorship of the wealthy. All hail the Corporate Dictatorship of America!
It would be a shame if this disgusting spectacle of Hitchens debasing himself in service of empire and handing out prejudicial leaflets full of false allegations against his debate opponent becomes his legacy.
@@9876bbb He said Galloway engaged in a corrupt scheme to profit from the oíl for food program which is false and had close relationships with corrupt oíl and arms dealers, also false. All these false claims were debunked in Congress under oath in a hearing where no evidence was presented by Galloway's accusers to prove any of these claims months before this debate happened.
@@daviddestefanis2989 That's a poor comparison. The people of Ukraine are trying to repel a foreign invader. In Iraq, America and the UK were the foreign invaders.
and i used to admire hitchens a long time ago how wrong i was how wrong i really was and im ashame of my self because i was completly wrong mister galloway. i believe i been awake from a realbad dream where i was an stupid ignorant, thanks for open my eyes mr galloway and i will be always gratefull.
Hitchens turned into a boofhead who was trotted out for a comment every five minutes. He went totally mentally and logically awol after he ‘discovered’ Judaism. White people killed thousands more times what they accused Saddam of.
@@Jojosworld000 No he wasn't. He was an utter idiot his entire life. He was an actual Trotskyist, lol, and then became a neoconservative in his 50s. He was too drunk to notice the transition.
When I saw a comment that credited Mr Galloway with this debate, I had to watch it. And, me being a fan of George, was not disappointed. Peace unto you.
Throughout his career he opposed American imperialism and saw both the avoidance and response to Iraq et al. case also imperalism -- at a certain point action and nonaction are both within the context of American imperialism's umbrella. He's not a gov. mouthpiece seeing as on numerous occasions he was against it, e.g., the Clintons and their almost entire geopolitics. Saddam, regardless of WMD's existence, was undoubtedly a tyrant that brutalized certain minorities; he was backed by the US into power (especially with the whole Iran-Iraq war) and eventually disturbed USA's geopolitical interests. In sum, Alan Moore is overrated and Anonymous ruined Guy Fawkes 🤓
@@Tretas. “sADDAm WAS a TyaRANT” yhh there are a bunch of tyrants around the world *which the US also backed and put helped put in power* so do we invade every single country that has a “tyrant”? The only reason the Americans and the British was brave enough to invade Iraq was because Iraq doesn’t have WMD 🤦🏾♂️😂
@@Tretas. so again if Saddam is tyrant and that’s the only reason to invade then don’t be hypocrite America and Britain and start invading China, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Israel etc etc. but I know America and Britain won’t because these countries have actual WMD’s *except for Saudi Arabia* 🤦🏾♂️. Are you one of those western delusional apologist
@@intello8953 So after the huge anti-imperialism, anti-war backlash your argument is to continue a worldwide campaign? It's as if you're desperate for arguments or something. Meanwhile, the west is the best hence why all want to flood in, and ew you're brown.
I love Hitchens, but here Mr. Galloway made him look totally on the wrong side of history and almost grotesque. History proved how much Mr. Galloway was right.👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏And how Mr. Galloway was just. ❤❤❤
At one point a US senator suggested a bill - if the US proposed to declare war it should go to a referendum - and if you vote yes - you will be called up. Brilliant idea. However, it didn’t get off the ground.
The truth. I lived in America for 5 years in the mid to late 90’s. Every time I was out in public or at work I would hear someone say,”the biggest mistake George Bush made was not finishing off Saddam when he had the chance”. This was in reference to driving Saddam out of Kuwait and you would literally hear it 3 times a day during the 90s. The Bush family name had been tarnished so when George W came into power, driven close to insanity by hearing this statement every day for 10years, his only aim was to clear his family name and get Saddam. Terrible but all the pain and suffering cause to so many people was just so little George W could say “Look Daddy. We got Saddam. I cleared the family name”
No. They both spoke well and supported their positions adroitly. Both defended the indefensible - tyrannies on both sides and women and children caught in the middle
I really didn't know anything about Galloway until I heard of his shock victory in Rochdale. Since then I've read a lot of bad things about him, And yet so far anyway, I agree with everything coming out of his mouth. I'm sure he's far from perfect but he's a perfect fit for what British politics needs right now. I mean he's literally filling the hole that exists in the middle of the Labor Party where their heart used to be.
You should see him in the video where the US Congress were questioning him about the cash for oil debacle ( Full testimony). Also he's spoken numerous times at the Oxford Union debates over here in the UK... Also I think he's got his own regular spots on RUclips. He's certainly the most formidable orator of the age that I can think of. You'd have to be a brave man to willingly get into an intellectual argument with Mr Galloway... Toodle Pip lol
@@peterlorimer3552 I found his youtube channel and have watched a number of other videos including this debate with Christopher Hitchens, Which is one of the few times I've seen Hitchens lose convincingly. That said he was already very much on the wrong side of history by the time that debate went down. I did find some stuff that he has said which is pretty dubious, Notably some weird ideas about what constitutes Consent, And his Reluctance to criticize Putin which definitely has not aged well In spite of that I can't help but like him because it's very hard to find a politician who I agree with at all these days.
@@RoseSharon7777 I've heard a few things he has said that I definitely don't agree with, but his Campaign to fight for the right of the Palestinian people is too important not to support. He's clearly not a grifter either because this appears to be something he has always stood for and has never wavered from.
I like Hitchen RIP but his obsession with saddam and regime change is a blemish and naive on the realist politics level. Gorgeous George spoke the truth and history has proved this. Keep going GG 👌🥇
His anti-religion stance meant he was anti-Muslim and that made him unhinged and able to support rather stupid causes. It's why India has not spoken out about the genocide in Palestine. Their ultra-pro- Hindu stance and their unhinged historical antipathy to all things Muslim makes this possible. Even very clever people can sometimes only see one pov.
"The British Empire, where the sun never set because god would never trust the English in the dark" LMFAO! 😆
Me too !
lol Israel now meets all the 4 conditions Hitchens used to condemn Iraq.
Exactly what I was going to say.
Exactly what I commented before even seeing this !!!!
You can track back to before 48 to meet those conditions.
Problem is, he is a pompous idiot, who supports zionism
Zionists have too much of a control over things, countries are scared to go against them
As an atheist, Hitchens has been a hero of mine. THIS is one of the few areas where I have to depart from him. As a Veteran, I saw some of the horrors we visited upon the innocent people there in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was absolutely no reason for it other than for the profits or our war industry. I'm in the US and I'm deeply ashamed of my country and its foreign policies. Hitchens is completely wrong here and I'm very glad that Galloway is once again an MP and can speak for the weak and downtrodden. All our hopes are with you, George!
I don't agree but I certainly can't argue with you. I'll find someone else 😂😂
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This is the morally foggy phase of Hitchens’ intellectual life…he was utterly wrong and I believe it was because he had many close personal friends in Iraq affected by Saddam’s regime and he really wanted the US’ lies to be true…he’s also a hero of mine prior to this point but I see him as a sad, deluded, figure just chugging legs of Koolaid in this phase…RIP Hitch
You should also question his unbelief in our creator. You won't find the truth in ANY religion. They are ALL wrong. You must seek the truth for yourself THEN the spirit of truth will lead you into all truth. If your even interested in finding the answers to the hard questions.
You can not take the trotsky pro establishment view out of him. @@DunningKrugerJnr
But you didn't see the Kurds who were almost wiped out multiple times.
You just saw the "poor" Arabs who were taking our girls as sex slaves.
You're not advocating for poor people, you're just mad cause your government dealt you a shit hand.
Saddam had to be removed otherwise he would've continued to do even worse things that he'd already done.
Not only to us Kurds, but to your country as well.
When I first saw this debate many years ago, I was on Galloway's side. Now, in 2024, I am on Galloway's side.
Well you can't teach stupid.
You are on the side of right.
@@ssa6227 You Jew haters stick together
@@wwbuirkle How the hell did you decide I am a Jew hater?
You are the Jew hater actually. All Zionist monsters are of course.
Not voted for 38 years, July 4th 2024 I will be providing my support for The Workers Party GB ✔️
"The taliban would still be in control of Afghanistan." 😅😅😅😅😅
I got a laugh out of that too 😂
they are more powerful than ever! America armed them to the teeth.
We have starlight express taliban today.
The irony.
@@Welsh2505 if it wasn’t so sad, it’d be funny. We spent trillions of dollars to replace them with themselves over 20 years - and that’s not too mention all the death & destruction 😢
"The first ever metamorphosis from a butterfly back into a slug."
GotDAMN.
Weird how every Trotskyist became a supporter of NATO and it's """PURSUIT OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS THROUGH METRIC TONS OF TNT""".
An incredible, unforgettable line and one of the greatest bitch slaps in the history of debates. Even Hitchens must have been impressed. Galloway wiped the floor with Hitchens who had foolishly decided to switch his allegiances to the US empire in his twilight years. What a pitiful man he became.
Goddddd I wouldn’t show my face after that one
I WOULD show my face after the one before 😁😁
Galloway never answers why he met and praised both Saddam Hussein and Assad?
What impresses most is George's huge capacity for information gathering, storage and instant retrieval.
This feeds into his oration which then flows seamlessly.
The man must have a photographic memory as well as total integrity.
God bless you George.
This adds to his formidability.
Yes. It’s this…as @andrewjjbyrne has said…which contributes to how great a debator he is. To beat him you have to at the very least match his recall. Then after that you must match his great oration. Once you’re his equal or his superior in these areas then you have a chance, providing you actually know your subject from top to bottom.
Not Hitchens finest moment
I wonder what 2023 Hitchens would think of this version of Hitchens.
Time has not been friendly to US hegemony
Yeah I liked Hitchens on some issues but like Sam Harris he developed a full on irrational loathing of Islam that followed him everywhere and clouded his vision.
@@Xinjiekou_新街口_Station True, I noticed too many falling down the islamophobia hole just for some clout and money, and just started regurgitating whatever they are told. Straight brainrot.
Are you mad? the death cult is the greatest threat to humanity and world peace today@@Xinjiekou_新街口_Station
Considering he'd been dead over 10 years, probably not much.
A perfectly _rational_ distrust of a death cult.@@Xinjiekou_新街口_Station
Galloway's courage in telling a New York audience why the WTC attacks went down was remarkable
In 2005 - just a few years after
@@minui8758 yes, and in complete contradiction to the 'war on terror' propaganda that followed the 11 Sep 2003 attack that sent the US collectively insane
@@DouglasCarnall 11 sept 2001
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Oops. Thx🙏😀
And a jewish New York audience at that.
"I wish he'd pick up a gun and go fight himself"
Timeless quote, George really called out the coward
Please don't call the Hitch a coward?
Pointless bravado with no substance. Hitchen’s called out the hypocrite quite convincingly.
@@dariussparkes7080 Hitchens is Destroyed in this debate and everything Galloway said turned out to be true in the following years
@@dariussparkes7080 Hitchens started his talk with who would have run Afghanistan if they hadn’t intervened 😂
They never will, and they'd rather send your kids than thier own.
George Galloped away with this debate. Now he is the MP for Rochdale. !!!
The trick of Hitchens's rhetoric is that he pretends the west has reluctantly found itself as a disinterested observer of atrocities committed by a wild orient with the choice to intervene or not, but it does so magnanimously on occasion despite the misgivings of a naive domestic populace. What this ignores is the history the west has in constructing, supporting, and protecting these villains when it suits them and only combating them when it suits them. While the individuals and regimes targetted may certainly "deserve justice" it only happens in support of a program of neoliberal globalization which can only work as a poisonous cure and will continue to perpetuate the disease it claims to cure.
well said.
Still doing same, Sisi of Egypt, MBS Saudi and Satanyahu in Israel list goes on....
Well said
Pro colonialist socialist, what a joke hitchens is.
Hitch was very poor in this debate. And I'm a fan. Galloway destroyed him on every level.
Hitch was very ill at that time. It wasn't long after this event he was diagnosed with a vicious cancer that took his life. I also noticed that Hitch did a 360 deg. change when he turned into a neocon.
Hitch never believed in the Iraq war, his hope was to save the Kurds. He lost because he knew he did only trying. It's the only time I've ever seen him betray his beliefs, but he did so for a noble reason. He was a great debater and a great man.
@@cecerider4414 His diagnosis was over 4 years later. It's a bit of a stretch to blame that for his performance in this debate.
In what way was Hitchen’s “destroyed”? - he showed Galloway was a hypocrite full of bravado with no substance.
@@dariussparkes7080 lol did you hear the whole debate or did you hear just the first twenty minutes
GG vs Douglas Murray would be a joy to behold
Douglas Murray is a third-rate orator, a second-rate thinker but a first-class clown.
As would David Icke vs the pair of them.
Murray would lose.
That would be hilarious.@@nickbamber268
@@barrykrishna9981 He would. But he would probably think he had won.
This aged well. Wish Hitchens was alive to get a reality check
No he was correct at the time. A lot has change since his death and he would be the first to say
@@iMertinhe lied at that time!
I hope he's experiencing his *''reality check''* in his grave...
Well this debate certainly aged badly for Hitchins, as I doubt most of those fools that cheered him on would be doing so today.
They would be because they're idiots.
I wonder if those New York jews in the audience would still be booing George today.
Never have I seen Hitchens cowered. Galloway have never been so formitable.
What did you watch? I watched Hitchens outclass him and any neutral person saw the same.
Hitchens has been proven wrong by history. @@Robc--jd6yh
@@Robc--jd6yhyeah , he did, on your wettest dreams.
Are you also part of the great metamorphosis, "from a beautiful butterfly back to a slug" . 😅
Telling that punchy quotes mean more to you than the detail and moral attention of Hitchens. Galloway has and always will shout about things which get him votes from peoples he takes advantage of, whilst simultaneously associating with the very worst and most vile of men, all in the name of undermining the countries which have given its people the right to speak freely, however whacky and disingenuous they are.
hahahahahahahaha.....you're nuts, try watching it again and open your ears this time.@@Robc--jd6yh
Now that man George is a man who knows how to fight. I've never listened to any other speaker that moves me like he does and causes me to want to be a better person.
As a Christian lady I am very happy to hear this. It is a fact that George is a Christian and Hitch was an atheist. Both self acclaimed as such.
I so much admired Chris Hichins in his early years...he did turn into a Slug 1in his later years...anAmerican DOOR MAT..So SAD,hitchin claim that G G lied to the US food for oil programme committee.. was shameful as GG wiped the floor with is two Zionist Jews interrogators (well worth watching)..and wipe the floor with Christopher on this occasion...l was so sad to see Hich end up mentally Disabled so....but George live on...Respect George
@@cecerider4414 you're an idiot
@@cecerider4414 It is a good song.
George is a traitor to his own people. I'm not sure which debate you watched but Christopher trounced him quite easily. In fact some would ask why Mr. Hitchens entertained this grifter.
I loved Hitchens, but GG was on fire here 🔥
*_same here, but George certainly did own Hitch in this debate_* 💪🇮🇪🏴
As well as correct.
Galloway the traitor
@@AaronRose69 he needs to leave the UK and go live in the desert, with all the other incestuous animals
Someone mentioned this debate to me today. Didn't even know it existed. Well done George. You really are a great orator.
Well.... He is Loud.
GG also bases a great deal of his tirade in witless and infantile personal attacks on the opposing debater, Hitchens does this as well but at least with genuine wit. GG cannot even form a workable metaphor - "butterfly from slug?" - clearly not. I am always suspicious of those who belie their true natures with all that manic pressure of speech. cf; Hitler, Thatcher etc.@@lenpeyOn the issue itself Hitchens failed to recognise (at the time) that the muslim Middle East despises the secular countries of The Enlightenment more than they despise their own local oppressors. It is Nietzche's 'slave mentality' in extremis. Any opportunity to rid the world of a this extremist, despotic cancer is 'rational' and this means any state ruled by any religion or authoritarian dictatorship. Hitchens would have done well to focus even more on the Kurds - the single voice of progress in this medieval region.
"Butterfly back into a slug"...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Low indeed ... and a butterflies larval stage is a caterpillar not a slug. epistemologically and scientifically unsound GG.
@@paramidge8935 😂 He said it was a first time so
I'm with you - but it's a clumsy retort - compare with any number of Hitchslaps and George looks lame. Hitchens was overly optimistic on the outcome of that war though. He thought that the people would socially evolve from their experience of Saddam's dictatorship and build something approaching a democracy. It was the recognition that too many people in the region have a dictatorship in their hearts and heads thanks to religion that made him so especially vehement about the ruinous nature of that particular brand of monotheism. @@user-di5el9ri1j
I'm surprised Hitchens didn't pick GG up on that.@@paramidge8935
@@paramidge8935 He knows that, he used the word slug intentionally.
It is hard to get one over on Hitch…….but Mr. Galloway is a force to be reckoned with. He wiped the floor with Hitchens in his prime. Well done! Everyone needs an ass whooping every now & again to remain humble.
Oh, man, you said it!
Somehow I'm still astonished, when I read comments like yours.
I mean, I immediately ask myself:" Does this person speak of this video that can be watched above?"
Just another case of people perceiving completely disparate realities, at least that is what appears to be going on for as long as I am willing to believe that you are conveying honestly your impression.
@@Ryan_Winter I have watched this entire video at least 5 - 10 times since it hit RUclips. Mr. Galloway wiped the floor with Hitchens. I am afraid I not the one who is deluded, mi amigo.
@@rickguerrero2282 Naw, Galloway could only dream of ever being on the same intellectual level as the late great Christopher Hitchens. Galloway will forever be only a deluded Muslim apologist.
@@Ryan_Winter If you can watch this video and be in agreement with Hitchens obsession with Anglo-American hegemony across the Muslims world, the foreign invasions and his promises of "keeping the Taliban out of power" "making Iraq a safer place" then you need your head checked by a specialist. The Taliban are more powerful than ever with billions of dollars worth of American weapons. The Iraq war created some of the most blood thirsty jihadi terrorists that had ever been seen in the world, and the made the region even more unstable.
Seriously if you think Hitchens was right on all of this, even with the recent knowledge that foreign interventions by the west have been disasters (Libya? now a slave market for migrants to flow into Europe) then you actually need your brain checked out.
The hindsight advantage proves that George was 100 percent on the money 😊
Now that the elites are openly playing their dirty games, covid, inflation, Ukraine and now Gaza they are more and more exposed and we see George was right all along.
We paid head choppers in Libya, Iraq,Syria and theyre currently heading to Ukraine. The wests handymen and odd jobbers.
Hitchens was wrong on a lot of issues here as history has attested too
Hitchens has been proven right.
Hitchens was George Bushes little bitxh
@@lenpey How???
@@lenpey You were asked how?
What was he right about?
@@lenpey The neoconservatives were proved right? lol! Back to the learning books for you, fruitcake.
George a man of honor and a gift to humanity. Long live George.
Hitchens>George
@@9876bbb here Hitchens is garbage. All lies.
Hitchens fits this quote to perfection: ' When alcoholic guy speaks, no one cares"@@9876bbb
u must be kidding
you can't trust Galloway as far as you can throw him, and Hitchens is a racist
Talk about bringing a pea shooter to a gun fight that was brutal watching it years after 😂🤣
You're right. Embarrassing for Galloway fans to see him so exposed.
Don't you mean a spud gun?
Wow, in Hitch's preamble, when he described the situation where a state sacrifices it's sovereignty, he described the US! Hitch was, wrong about US/NATO interventions and definitely wrong about Galloway, he was _very_ wrong in this debate. Nowhere has a US/NATO intervention improved the lives of the people.
As much as I agree with his views on gods and religion, he's always been very wrong in promoting and defending US imperialism.
I guess you have not been to the former Yugoslavia lately.
In his later years, Hitch was totally bought. He become a full-on supporter of the USA and their 'democracy'.
I used to love Hitch, such a great orator. Claimed he was a Marxist at heart but turned into a neocon. Sad. Wonderful man. George didn't rise to the bait, he stood his ground.
Because Marxism is a joke
@@9876bbb True, and not a very funny one.
Any chance either of you could tell me something about marxism that is terrible?
Or are you meaning communism?
Because I think if you actually read the work of marks and his stance on capitalism, working class people and the ruling classes maybe you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
Ironically the ideological foundation of neoconservatism is trotskyism
What's wrong with a thought experiment?
George always wins because he doesn't change his views and believes in everything he says . Legend
Aka a deluded ideologue
Well .... He is obnoxious. I'll grant you that.
Lmao, except changing his mind on Assad in Syria. All of you ideologues clap like seals whenever you see someone being anti west, and of course like Galloway, never shy away from siding with dictators so long as their anti west or anti Israel. It’s sad how predictable you all are.
Of course he doesn't, he's essentially a Muslim fundamentalist. Try getting them to consider anything outside of their medieval purview. You won't be able to.
@@9876bbb No, a man with principle.
Like him or loathe him, George Galloway is one of the great orators of our time.
Well, he don't need no Marshall cabinets behind him. That's for sure.
Its gonna be fucking amazing now hes in the parliament
at the very least history vindicated him in this debate.
@@ungala Jihadis are happy as well.
Hitchens was quite loathsome in this debate. . .
Hitchens the chicken was wrong on Iraq, Afghanistan, and all other gibberish he was talking about. Time proved him wrong. 😅
Why is he a Chicken? He went to these places when they when were under these harsh regimes that’s why he’s sympathetic to people wanting to intervene to help the Kurds
@@9876bbb the same countries that the west destroyed in the first place by invading them. Maybe the west shouldnt kill people halfway across the world and you wont have fascist regimes
You’ll never get an answer
@@9876bbb Source?
@@9876bbb Hitchens is the definition of a fool, useful only to imperialism.
“The first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly back into a slug.” -GG. Best quote in history
apart from the fact that it should be a caterpillar... but you know, let's not have the truth get in the way of an important analogy
You've clearly not heard that many.
Hitchens should have stuck to debating religious nuts and not real life issues. Facts will always beat delusion, eh Christopher
Ironically, all he did against religious opponents was joke and not really say anything of substance. We really gave Hitchens more credit than he deserved.
I been watching this debate every few weeks. Because it makes me better person. I love George Galloway because he use his life for a good cause.
I think he hase found the purpose of living. I am proud of to know him and I promise that my kids and their kids will follow this right path no matter how hard it is. My prayers with you George and many George Galloways to come.
Galloway is a slimeball and a crook. I hope your kids grow up to be nothing like him.
@@cchj768 you are a white supremacist with 50 pence in your dusty pockets 😆🤣
If only everybody could think like you world would be better place, who want taught his children the truth and the right path and sincerity which is the most important thing for us humans.
Your CM is too old but i wanted to right my thought lol
Hitchens > Galloway
History has proven Galloway completely correct
As recent poll showed that 75% of Iraqis are glad the coalition removed the bathists and gave their country a chance for a new lease on life.
@@lenpey I'm glad that Hitler directed Porsche to design the Volkswagen.
@@lenpey source? Also as an Iraqi, I miss Saddam. I wish the Ba'ath was still in power
@@lenpey You were asked the source of your 'poll'. Where did you see this 'poll'? Who carried it out?
@@um.pa.s.s.a.3043 really?
I'm no fan of Galloway but Hitchens looked more impressive when he was up against the God squad with their weak arguments about belief. When he went up against Galloway he lost. Sorry Hitch fanboys.
Even when debating religion, his arguments had next to no substance. Laughable to even label them as “arguments” in the first place.
Both were outstanding orators and my heroes. I wish they had stayed away from personal attacks.
Yeah, Hitchen's started with base name calling because he knew he was going to get hammered by Galloway
@@DemonetisedZone Hitchens is still better
Mr Galloway speaks from the pure heart
Galloway has been proven correct.
No he hasn't.
@@lenpey why is that? If Saddam was making WMDs he would have used them against the allies.
@@Bobby-ix5methere were no WMDs found ever!
@@barbararenovato2645 yea that's my point. The whole justification for the war was BS.
@@Bobby-ix5me how can a lie so evil it causes millions of innocent death go unpunished still boggles me to this day
16 mins - i did not interupt you so please dont slobber over mine. Absolutely savage
Yep, even more funny was Hitches replying "That was a good one"
Hitch was great but any orator meets their match in GG
Galloway makes him look like an amateur
A great sophist, in the best scenario for him.
Imagine if the Taliban were in charge. Aged like milk.
The only time i have seen Hitchens being
hitch-Slapped
To clarify: A Hitchslap is a strike across the the face of your opponent with fact or truism. It's not the same to simply lob a schoolyard insult at your opponent like Galloway. Anyone can do that.
Exactly lol
Wow I've never seen Hitchens get killed like this. GG destroys him and years later it's even more obvious.
How was he hitch slapped precisely?
All Galloway could do was shout at him calling him “a butterfly turned into a slug” which is just cheap shot ad hominem, rant “damn you!” and allow the zoo noise booing in the audience. You notice when Galloway was getting booed over his apologetics for the 9/11 bombers saying “we” caused it (not the fanatical Muslims who feel they have god’s permission to kill anyone) Hitchens called for calm in the audience. And called him out over Assad’s brutal operations he called “heroic”.
Think you need to watch this again.
@@stormhawk3319 Why did he call him "a butterfly turning into a slug"?? Did you hear what Galloway said before that?! Don't cherry pick words to prove a point!
As for 9/11 then I find it very hard to believe that a bunch of uneducated tribal men living in some Tora Bora mountains who couldn't speak a word of English were able to hijack, takeover and fly a plane over the US shores who has the worlds best intelligence in the world without the knowledge of them or the American government? Ironically these so called "Islamists" uneducated tribal men were trained by the Americans for the Soviet war. While the mujahideen were backed by various countries and organisations, the majority of their support came from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Iran!
United states being the main support! These very mujahids they knew very well whom they left behind unhinged and fully trained! 9/11 real perpetrators was the United SNAKES of America....Free Julian Assange he'll tell the world!
Love seeing this again. I knew there were tremendous reasons I still love G.G.!
Rochdale awaits you.
Watching this in the light of Israel’s genocide, and I feel disgusted by the lies and hypocrisies piled up in Hitchen’s speech, along with all those clapping for him.
Take A Moment My friend
From Calgary Untruedaux Land.
We are told by our media that the People of Gaza started the war. I'm a jewish atheist, never believed in any gods. I have PTSD after 28yrs in the RAF.
Stay Safe
Stay Safe and Stay Free
May your god go with you 🙏
History hasn't been kind to Hitchens. He became a state apologist and in the case of the US and Britain that is never going to go well for you.
Hardly, Hitchens had a body of work that is heralded as top class witting.
What in the fuck are you talking about? This world would be a much better place with more men and women like Hitchens! History has and will continue to be kind to him! You would do well to realign yourself on the right side of said history and leave your imbecility behind.
Hitch is much better when he sticks to religion bouth fine oritors. You don't have to agree with them but it's nice to see in a world were the sound bite is all matters.
I suppose he left his Trotskyism behind for pragmatism and a world of no clearcut solutions.
When they spoke in the foyer, Galloway told Hitchens that his hands were shaking, which they were, and told him he needed another drink. Slapped him down before they even got started. I liked both men for different reasons.
holy shit! Hitchens got pwned into oblivion!
Not so much a debate, just an absolute roasting. This is the only time i've ever seen Hitchens getting owned. Superb
Absolutely pwned.
Galloway is based, principled and humble before greater forces than himself. Hitchens has the arrogance, arbitrariness and hubris of the atheist. Galloway speaks from the soul; Hitchens from the cold intellect. This is why Galloway blows Hitchens out of the water in debates like these, and it's why his positions have been proven correct, while Hitchens' have proved disastrous.
George like myself, is a staunch Scottish Catholic, who does not suffer fools lightly.
I'm a huge admirer of Hitchens and miss him dearly but George won this one. Convincingly. Everyone who is a Hitchens fan should be fine with that as well. It shows that Hitchens is a human being with flaws and wrong from time to time no matter how intelligent or erudite he was. The important thing is that his argument is good-natured, sincere and thought out, even if it was wrong. We're not used to seeing him make misjudgements or lose debates. Maybe that's why it's a bit difficult to accept when you admire Hitchens. It's evident that he himself didn't take the loss very well either, because he isn't used to it. It's a compliment to him as a debater and orator.
Check out Hitchens debate against Scott Ritter, toasty!
@@michaelflandez4510 will look it up, thank you!
It wasn't the only BIG issue he was wrong about.
"From a butterfly back into a slug"!
Hitchens defending American fascist policy.
Galloway speaking truth from his heart.
Night and day.
His arguments are embarrassingly thin here, almost facile. His overinflated reputation will never live down his support of the Iraq War.
@@the_furthest_reaches He used arguments. Shallowgay used only screams and insults. He was so lousy that his gibberish about "swamp of hatred" made the crow boo him, making him babble ten times "I believe" LOL
skepticaldemocrat You obviously didn’t listen, either because the sight of Galloway exposing your idol is too painful to witness, or perhaps because, much like the unapologetic moral degenerate Hitch, the rivers of innocent blood that continue to flow from this disaster count for little or nothing to you. The grotesque spectacle that was Hitch’s unwavering support of this massacre will forever stain his reputation.
Hitchens was giving lists of things happening in Iraq and Galloway just said America and uk is wrong so. I don’t see how Hitchens argument was thinner then Galloway
Youre so funny here... you smack him so bad with ur words and humor.... love it! Keep it up Mr. Galloway!! WHY YOU DIDNT TRY TO BECOME A LAWYER??? YOURE SO GREAT!!!! I DONT NEED to finish it to determine.... YOU won!!!!!!
One could argue that Hitch won the debate because he had the harder argument, selling out to the Bush Dictatorship as he did....WHY Hitch did it, I can only assume he was #1-Blackmail and/or #2-Bribed.
@@tommyodonovan3883 hi Tom! Hmm its possible.... Speaking of blackmail, what issue will they use as a blackmail ?
@@peacetoeveryone1795, 48 rules of power...Know every man's weakness, Hitch was uber ambitious.
@@tommyodonovan3883 does it has something to do when he became a player in the impeachment process by signing an affidavit alleging that his erstwhile friend Sidney Blumenthal, a White House aide, who provided him with information disparaging Monica S. Lewinsky; this assertion contradicts Blumenthal's grand jury testimony?? Or something else?
How can you support Galloway on this? He spent 15 minutes insulting Hitchins and talking about the British war against colonies, he chatted about England and Ireland. AND NOT ONCE DID KUWAIT COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH. NOT ONCE. How do you criticize someone about invading Iraq and go WAY out of your way to avoid mentioning Kuwait. I don't get that. Are you okay with the wholesale genocide that would have taken place under Saddam?
Oh this aged like milk 🥛
George, you were the man then and you are the man now. You have inspired me to go out and step on a bug.
Don't do it, man.
I bless my luck to be aware of George Galloway. Even if this debate occurred years ago.
I dont pick sides before a debate...but, as soon as the first comment ends, i know which one is a pathological, diabolical war monger and thats enough for me.
Well, you are in the right country.
George Galloway sure won that debate
He shouted the loudest.
Someone should have told Hitchens not to have a battle of wits with Galloway when poor Hitchens is unarmed.
This was an absolute war crime of words
This is dynamite takedown of an alleged genius and demagogue to the us intelligences - I changed my view on Hitchens after this, he seemed scared of George to the extent that he handed out leaflets on the streets ahead of this in order to get a leg up with the audience. Top marks George
George predictably read his leaflet before the debate started, he even corrected Hitchens on a point in the leaflet during the debate.
Great orator George g. I think l have matured listening to all of this. Hk
All the more impressive when you learn Galloway's family were from a working-class part of Dundee and he left school around 15 to start work so he never attended University. In contrast Hitchens was born into a middle-class family, was educated at a prep school then gained entry into Oxford University.
How did Galloway develop the oratorical skill, critical thinking and depth of knowledge he has? When you listen to cabinet members from Westminster it makes you think that the universities only churn out identikit sheep of very little talent on their PPE courses.
That’s exactly why Universities were designed!
George Galloway is not just a national treasure, he is a world treasure. There is not a better orator on earth than this man.
He's an unpleasant egotist who doesn't care about his constituency
That may be true, but only because Hitchens died before his time.
absolutely@@tamasg538
I enjoy his oration, but its a shame he leant it to the causes he did. He's a Westerner who only lends his voice to the protection of Muslims. Is that going to be the future of our society? I hope not. I'm afraid he's stuck in the past.
Hitchens death saved him from the historical embarrassment. Today all is clear he was very wrong.
💯
right on many things, but not this
No, you are wrong now
@@darrenambrosianope he was wrong then and you are wrong now!
That was his brother.
Amy Goodman has fallen just as far as hitchens.
How do you see that? Care to elaborate?
George is a humanitarian with intellect.
He’s a dictator apologist - far from a humanitarian.
Is that what Putin apologists are called these days?
@@dariussparkes7080 I take it you're a fan of democracy. American democracy, the finest democracy money can buy. Maybe you haven't noticed the massive and overwhelming corporate influence on government, giving us government of the people by and for the wealthy. We are ruled by unelected and largely unidentified oligarchs (or whatever the non-foreign version is), an anonymous dictatorship of the wealthy.
All hail the Corporate Dictatorship of America!
@@dariussparkes7080 ,
Clueless.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@shannongfm9945 OK NATO fanboy.
It would be a shame if this disgusting spectacle of Hitchens debasing himself in service of empire and handing out prejudicial leaflets full of false allegations against his debate opponent becomes his legacy.
What did he say that was false
@@9876bbb He said Galloway engaged in a corrupt scheme to profit from the oíl for food program which is false and had close relationships with corrupt oíl and arms dealers, also false. All these false claims were debunked in Congress under oath in a hearing where no evidence was presented by Galloway's accusers to prove any of these claims months before this debate happened.
"Mr Hitchens is ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood."
What people are doing in Ukraine now. To his credit, Galloway also does not support the war in Ukraine.
That callout definitely struck a chord.
@@daviddestefanis2989 That's a poor comparison. The people of Ukraine are trying to repel a foreign invader. In Iraq, America and the UK were the foreign invaders.
@@dundeedolphinHi Google John Pilger.Lions to.lambs The war on Propoganda.
and i used to admire hitchens a long time ago how wrong i was how wrong i really was and im ashame of my self because i was completly wrong mister galloway. i believe i been awake from a realbad dream where i was an stupid ignorant, thanks for open my eyes mr galloway and i will be always gratefull.
Hitchens is a brilliant man. He was wrong about Iraq, but that’s not a reason to discredit him.
Hitchens turned into a boofhead who was trotted out for a comment every five minutes. He went totally mentally and logically awol after he ‘discovered’ Judaism. White people killed thousands more times what they accused Saddam of.
ruclips.net/video/_uGirqLGSXI/видео.html
you can start at 9.49
@@Jojosworld000 ,
Brilliance meaning nothing when one is dishonest.
Hitchenst sold his soul to the devil.
@@Jojosworld000 No he wasn't. He was an utter idiot his entire life. He was an actual Trotskyist, lol, and then became a neoconservative in his 50s. He was too drunk to notice the transition.
George Galloway - amazing and intelligent guy. Really enjoy his debates, speeches and talks. A great guy.
Omggggggggggg this is such a great speech by Galloway I’m only 30 but goodness I wish I was watching this while I was younger
Make sure you check out Galloway drinking the invisible milk, in a way that will perhaps not remind you of Hitchens at any point ever in his life.
Do you blurt like a sheep? Gallaway, is a chancer & charlatan, little facts no detail but lots of fiction.
He is a Fascist hidden inside a Dundee Cake
What a tragic figure you are.
Moron.
When I saw a comment that credited Mr Galloway with this debate, I had to watch it. And, me being a fan of George, was not disappointed. Peace unto you.
In V for Vendetta, was Hitchens the influence for the mouthpiece of the government? Cause he is spot on.
Throughout his career he opposed American imperialism and saw both the avoidance and response to Iraq et al. case also imperalism -- at a certain point action and nonaction are both within the context of American imperialism's umbrella. He's not a gov. mouthpiece seeing as on numerous occasions he was against it, e.g., the Clintons and their almost entire geopolitics. Saddam, regardless of WMD's existence, was undoubtedly a tyrant that brutalized certain minorities; he was backed by the US into power (especially with the whole Iran-Iraq war) and eventually disturbed USA's geopolitical interests.
In sum, Alan Moore is overrated and Anonymous ruined Guy Fawkes 🤓
@@Tretas. “sADDAm WAS a TyaRANT” yhh there are a bunch of tyrants around the world *which the US also backed and put helped put in power* so do we invade every single country that has a “tyrant”? The only reason the Americans and the British was brave enough to invade Iraq was because Iraq doesn’t have WMD 🤦🏾♂️😂
@@intello8953 Wait Saddam _wasn't_ a tyrant? So the argument here is either to go against all tyrants or none at all?
@@Tretas. so again if Saddam is tyrant and that’s the only reason to invade then don’t be hypocrite America and Britain and start invading China, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Israel etc etc. but I know America and Britain won’t because these countries have actual WMD’s *except for Saudi Arabia* 🤦🏾♂️. Are you one of those western delusional apologist
@@intello8953 So after the huge anti-imperialism, anti-war backlash your argument is to continue a worldwide campaign? It's as if you're desperate for arguments or something. Meanwhile, the west is the best hence why all want to flood in, and ew you're brown.
Galloway mopped the floor with Hitchens.
Yes he did mop the floor with Hitchins but he couldn't reach into the corners......
@@Michael-zg8qw😂😂
I love Hitchens, but here Mr. Galloway made him look totally on the wrong side of history and almost grotesque.
History proved how much Mr. Galloway was right.👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏And how Mr. Galloway was just. ❤❤❤
At one point a US senator suggested a bill - if the US proposed to declare war it should go to a referendum - and if you vote yes - you will be called up. Brilliant idea. However, it didn’t get off the ground.
The truth. I lived in America for 5 years in the mid to late 90’s. Every time I was out in public or at work I would hear someone say,”the biggest mistake George Bush made was not finishing off Saddam when he had the chance”. This was in reference to driving Saddam out of Kuwait and you would literally hear it 3 times a day during the 90s. The Bush family name had been tarnished so when George W came into power, driven close to insanity by hearing this statement every day for 10years, his only aim was to clear his family name and get Saddam. Terrible but all the pain and suffering cause to so many people was just so little George W could say “Look Daddy. We got Saddam. I cleared the family name”
His own death saved him from the historical embarrassment
Oh no this echoes in eternity and it trembles the ground the body is buried in.
God, the same exact tactics that the Israelis use 20 years later about gaza
George Galloway excellent speech, Christopher Hitchens talking out of his rear end as usual
No. They both spoke well and supported their positions adroitly. Both defended the indefensible - tyrannies on both sides and women and children caught in the middle
Hitchens is one of the great journalists and speakers of our time.
George Galloway’s oratory and debating skills genius. If he came from a privileged English background he would be hailed as a national treasure.😊
I watch this once or twice pre yr.
Hitchens was an influencer for the CIA.
Galloway WINS hands down ...
Can't even be fair on here, and let us hear Mr Galloway's closing 5 minutes pathetic, George you are the man ! ripped him a new ar#e hole.
Well said George you are a pioneer.
George Galloway - just love listening to this man! Peace and respect from Colchester, UK.
How I wish GG debated Ben shapiro
Now that would be something
This is the only time I’ve seen Hitchen Hitch-slapped into oblivion…well played George 👏
I really didn't know anything about Galloway until I heard of his shock victory in Rochdale. Since then I've read a lot of bad things about him, And yet so far anyway, I agree with everything coming out of his mouth. I'm sure he's far from perfect but he's a perfect fit for what British politics needs right now.
I mean he's literally filling the hole that exists in the middle of the Labor Party where their heart used to be.
You should see him in the video where the US Congress were questioning him about the cash for oil debacle ( Full testimony). Also he's spoken numerous times at the Oxford Union debates over here in the UK... Also I think he's got his own regular spots on RUclips. He's certainly the most formidable orator of the age that I can think of. You'd have to be a brave man to willingly get into an intellectual argument with Mr Galloway... Toodle Pip lol
@@peterlorimer3552 I found his youtube channel and have watched a number of other videos including this debate with Christopher Hitchens, Which is one of the few times I've seen Hitchens lose convincingly. That said he was already very much on the wrong side of history by the time that debate went down.
I did find some stuff that he has said which is pretty dubious, Notably some weird ideas about what constitutes Consent, And his Reluctance to criticize Putin which definitely has not aged well
In spite of that I can't help but like him because it's very hard to find a politician who I agree with at all these days.
Don't believe everything you read about him by the media. They are part of the system that hates him and all people with a moral compass.
@@RoseSharon7777 I've heard a few things he has said that I definitely don't agree with, but his Campaign to fight for the right of the Palestinian people is too important not to support. He's clearly not a grifter either because this appears to be something he has always stood for and has never wavered from.
I like Hitchen RIP but his obsession with saddam and regime change is a blemish and naive on the realist politics level. Gorgeous George spoke the truth and history has proved this. Keep going GG 👌🥇
Galloway towelled Hitchens! An absolute Drubbing at the time and more poignant than ever right now!!
George Galway what a man spot on with everything 👏
What a man, GG is just a living legend.
@@Craftyking1099…Did he insert chilli 🌶️ up your keister?
Most things Hitchens talks about apply to Apartheid Israel & to the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
I loved Hitchens' debates against religion, but he was dead wrong about supporting 'The War on Terror'.
It's easy to argue against religion but almost impossible to beat Galloway in an argument about politics.
His anti-religion stance meant he was anti-Muslim and that made him unhinged and able to support rather stupid causes.
It's why India has not spoken out about the genocide in Palestine. Their ultra-pro- Hindu stance and their unhinged historical antipathy to all things Muslim makes this possible.
Even very clever people can sometimes only see one pov.
Galloway is an immense speaker, like him or hate him.
He slayed here
Hitchin crippled by an ideology he can't see in himself.