Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq War, Kurdistan, and the CIA (1991 - Part 3)

[GreatImperium]

That other guy is such a loser. All he does is call Hitchens names and put words in his mouth.

[temporaldisplacement]

@GreatImperium I think he made two salient points throughout this clip ...he may have won some battles here but charisma wasn't going to be one of them.

[tmcgrenere]

Ha Ha I laughed so hard at @hugoegbert79. Though I don't usually agree with Mr. Hitchens, I do like his style, his opinionated personality (like me) and his entertaining persona. He has made debating cool.

[TheLockon00]

HUTCHENS!!!!!

[diadorim1234]

Ehhh??? is this an imaginairy hitchens? did he turn a 180 degrees the last 10 years.

[PurushaDesa]

Bit unfair to accuse Mr. Hutchens of ducking the question, seeing as no one invited him on to the programme.

[Reqrezentin]

Hitchens looks like a liberal in this.

[hugoegbert79]

@Reqrezentin A few years before this, Hitchens was called a liberal by a woman calling in to the show. His response was: "You insult me more than you intend madam, by calling me a liberal. I'd said earlier I was a socialist-you can't have been listening. We regard liberals as dangerous compromises where i come from."

[MoscowMaestro]

@hugoegbert79 This neocon cunt Hitchens has never been a socialist in his entire worthless preening life. He's an airhead fool with an accent he stole from a BBC costume drama, and yanks listen to this moron and worship the shit that falls out of his neocon asshole.

[finchy633]

I don't see why people make a big deal about Hitchens assumed change of positions. As Mr Keynes famously said "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? Ideas shape the course of history."

[keereekee]

@finchy633

On the contrary, the facts were precisely the same. Same monstrous dictator, Saddam, in charge, same human rights violations, same program of oppression against the Kurds, same political dynasty in power in America, Bush.

Where is Hitchen's current defense of regime change in Iraq.

I am astounded at Hitchen's polar attitude towards Iraq in this discussion:

International conference on Middle East policy (Hitch, 1990) Vs Invasion/Regime change (Hitch, >2001).

[GiulianoTaverna89]

@keereekee The Bush 41 administration never attempted or even considered regime change and Bush 43 ran against it while Gore was running on it, Clinton just having passed the Iraqi liberation act at the urging of people like Hitchens. Hitchens to the best of my knowledge has never said a kind word about any dictatorship, and has never done more than acknowledged that occasionally America will do the right thing, even if for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way.

[jimmbo13]

@finchy633 |Yes but Hitchens changed while the facts did not, which he admitted somewhat, somewhere where he admitted he should have supported Bush 41

[hugoegbert79]

This is brutal! (And Hitchens was right).

[HAZIDEAD]

Wow! Hitchens has certainly changed his colors. I'm impressed though by how successful Morton was in standing up to him back then when Hitchen's was a communist and Islam apologist.

[bigfoot799]

Wow, what a difference a decade makes. Everything they said has been reversed.

[Classicintercourse]

Brian Lamb is brilliant, he just lets them go back and forth at each other. So many hosts/moderators chip in and interrupt.

[MrElectroGizmo]

@Classicintercourse

Agreed.

[Gamble2185]

this guy was wrong