Christopher Hitchens France 24 Interview Part 2/2

[ludvan67]

Hitchins is a hypocrite. I have no problem with his views against religion, I share them. But he lives in the US because of money. Why does he send his kids to a Quaker school? Aren't there any secular schools where he lives, if not move. The war against Iraq was about revenge for 9/11. Because the US could not target Al Qaeda because it's scattered around the world, they chose Iraq. Using lies to justify it. WMD's & the like.

[Territomauvais]

@ludvan67 You are severely misguided with your conspiracy...

[ludvan67]

@Territomauvais What conspiracy? I'm simply stating my opinion. Hold on I want to see from where you are. As I thought the so the US. Market oriented love of capitalism, like Hitchins. It's a shame about him. he is a very clever man, and understands the evil of religion, but unlike Richard Dawkins he's filled with hate. He wanted to live long enough to see Bin Laden dead. How sad to want to see another person dead, and how stupid.

[Territomauvais]

@ludvan67 What another fatuous comment lol.

Would you like Osama to have outlived you? Come on, don't be silly. And unless you're suggesting you have remorse that Mr. Bin Laden is dead, I don't get your point.

Neither are filled with hate, quite the opposite. You also seem to misguided about the Iraq war...do you not think Saddam was a murderous, genocidal tyrant or something?

[Territomauvais]

@ludvan67 The case for intervention in Zimbabwe and Iraq is of a planetary difference. If you can't see that, you can't see that. Saddam is directly responsible for attempted genocide, and a war in which over a million young men died for no reason. (Sanctioned by US President and 'peace activist' Jimmy Carter btw, so don't think I don't know the USA has many stains on its record)

The people of the country tried in Iraq. They were slaughtered from the air. 1991 uprisings, look it up.

[ludvan67]

@Territomauvais Well you know your countries crimes against humanity. It's not another countries business to interfere. Saddam was OK for the US when they needed him. Look this is the age old story of colonialism. Intervening in Zimbabwe would only make things worse. As with Saddam all we have to do is wait for Mugabe to die or be overthrown. Now I'll tell you the truth. 11/09/01. Was one of the happiest days of my life the US got what it deserved. I won't respond any more.

[Territomauvais]

@ludvan67 No need to respond. You expose your stupidity and hate with your comment. The US Got what it deserved? What kind of a sadist are you?

Every country in the world, even Afghanistan, condemned the attacks...except one country. Iraq. Do you know what was said? It's in the same vein as your disgusting remark; 'The American cowboys have got what they deserved'.

Congrats, you now have something in common with Saddam. Although, I'm not sure you feel that is a shameful thing...

[ludvan67]

@Territomauvais The US thinks it's sacrosanct, & no one has the right to attack it. Well it aint. As the saying says "There are no rules in love and war. As for bin laden. I'll quote from a video on my channel from Naom Chomsky "Every American president up to the present should be hanged as a war criminal" I am against the death penalty, but I agree with the sentiment.

[jojoinhere]

why ain't they speaking french?

[PopUpPenguin]

@jojoinhere France 24 offers French, English, and Arabic programming.

[arthuronfacebook]

@jojoinhere You sound like the usual American halfwit.

[PoliticalPars]

@jojoinhere It's their English net.

[beenn15]

@jojoinhere They're trying to influence you by speaking your language... since nobody wants to learn french anymore.

[tammas2000]

Big problem in that Christopher had to bite his tongue when the interviewer wrongly attributed the "divided by a common language" quote to Oscar Wilde!

GBS would be burling in his grave!

[robertosixninesix]

theres not that much difference between being british and being american, mainly people from the UK are less ethnocentric than most americans thats one of the few major cultural differences.

[IcedPhoenix666]

British aren't Burger King gobblers.

[drche420]

@IcedPhoenix666

Americans aren't Burger King gobblers.

I prefer taco bell.

[Entropy56]

Hahah! Hitchens called Obama a lying politician.

[ikedasquid]

Well, if you are a skeptic in the US and you want to be a politician, you're gonna have to lie.

[yoda43]

please excuse my por spelling :)

[yoda43]

beautiful is a bit strong! articulate and educated,most definatly. always right? No. as to the religous question, well we are all lokin for answers, some placidly accept what they are told, some activley question the nature of things, its my belief that the latter, leave cosy trits explanations, and look for answers

[thegoochieguy]

hitchens is such a beautiful, articulate, and intelligent man, and yes, we are much less religious than people believe.

there is no difference between islamic and christian fundies, with the exception that most christian fundies live in secular societies that would not tolerate christofascists behaving in primarily the same manner as islamic fundies, because A BELIEF IN GOD IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO BE UNACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT THEY DO IN THE NAME OF THEIR GOD.

[dmlauffer]

I have to agree with you but i think its dishonest to say that TODAY "there is no difference between islam and christian fundies" for the mere fact that christian fundamentalists have absolutely no power anywhere in the world while there are nation states ruled by Islamic fundamentalists.

[thegoochieguy]

true, very true

[drche420]

@dmlauffer

Are you forgeting that to hold a major public office in America, it is damn difficult to do so without being at least a little funamentalist?

[dmlauffer]

@drche420

honestly, where do you get this crap? is our president a fundamentalist? is anyone in his administration a fundamentalist? is Hilary Clinton a fundamentalist? I would argue the opposite, there isn't a fundamentalist in the white house, unless you consider a "fundamentalist" to be anyone who doesn't see the world exactly the way you do.

[butterflycaught900]

@thegoochieguy the main difference is when christ fundies are mocked they dont respond with rioting and advocating the decapitation of the mockers. not to mention violent christian terrorists are limited to the bombing of abortion clinics maybe once or twice a decade. as opposed to muslims blowing themselves up every other week

[kittygirl792]

woah, i think it's amazing how a french guy is doing an interview in such fluent english

[stupidtreehugger]

03:55 Newsweek story Pope re-communicating Bishops from sect that says Jews killed Jesus and are eternally guilty for it and that the US Gov committed 911.

Shows how committed the Pope is to his NWO plan. The Vatican is the occult HEAD of the money powers of this world, OF COURSE the Pope is going to try to bring 911 truth into disrepute. Hitchens is probably a Jesuit, at best HASN'T DONE HIS RESEARCH! Search FALSE FLAG OPERATION, Francesco Cossiga 911 etc

[stupidtreehugger]

If the wool was not woven, it could not be pulled over our eyes. If you want to know history and what is really happening in the world today: FOLLOW THE MONEY. start with eg video.google The Money Masters or The Brotherhood of Darkness

[quinn2469]

This was awesome. Thanks for posting the interview. I didn't know Hitchens wrote a book about Thomas Paine. That's one I definitely have to get.

[crufflerdoug]

Great interview -- many thanks for posting this.

[GyrinidaeRex]

Good interview! Thanks for posting it :D It's amazing how Hitchens gets along with people these days. Maybe he's just getting laid more often....

[TianSan]

or maybe he's actually talking to civilized intellilects

[rkullberg]

I love how spelling mistkaes can be so ironic.

[bryantulsa]

I do wish he'd keep his shoes on during the interview.

[Redbeardian]

I like C.H.'s support of the Kurdish, in his support of action in Iraq. Personnally, I wanted the A-holes dealt with back in 1988 when word was out that the cowards were commiting genocide on them. But then again, us in the west are pretty weak when it comes to preventing genocides in the world. Most of the scumbags realize they can get away with it for a long time.

[qanazir]

Although Saddam was a tyrant, he was dealt with at the wrong time(1988 would as you say been fine) and in the wrong way.

[stupidtreehugger]

In 1988 US/UK sold Saddam 100 tons of militarized Botchilinus with a shelf life of 3 years that he used to kill 1/4 million Kurds. Among other witnesses, Peter Kawaje died to bring us this truth, you can see him on video.google.

[Clemburke1111]

I cat believe he said Obama is a none believer, I thought i was crazy because I thought the same thing ,,,still do

[TheCuriousSkeptic]

"I cat believe he said Obama is a none believer"

It's very played down, for obvious reasons.

[tenneral]

An excellent, urbane and witty interview from a thoroughly cultured channel, France 24, - always worth watching. Thanks for posting.

[PurushaDesa]

Hey Tenneral, is there a fully English version or at least subtitled version of the channel? Is that what we were watching? If so, I'd like to be able to find an online stream.

[tenneral]

I watch it on Sky 513, largely geared for an English-speaking audience.