George Galloway comments on Christopher Hitchens

George Galloway comments on the passing of author, journalist and political commentator Christopher Hitchens.
Hitchens, atheist activist and former Trotskyite eventually turned to the right and supported George Bush and his wars. Both Galloway and Hitchens took part in a now-well-known debate at Baruch University, New York, about the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
From Talksport radio show, December 17th, 2011.

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[miriitisw]

So...it was funny for Christopher Hitchens to speak far more contemptuously about his deceased opponents (e.g. his popular attack on Jerry Falwell during a Hannity appearance), but when Galloway chose to speak like this about Hitchens' because of his relentless support for neoconservatism, the Hitchens defenders consider it to be "too low"!

[abujamal85]

Hahaha funny how Hitchens fanboys rant against every religious person when it seems they just replaced god with their allmighty hitchens. And just like believers they break in tears and explode with anger when somone disagrees with their holy father hitchens. And whats worse is the fact that most of hitchens fanboys know that the iraq war was illegal and simply wrong but they would never say it because they would disagree with their hero.. Hitchens was a warmonger and will be rememberd as one.

[ErikPaulsonFan]

I used to hate Galloway and, as a Jew, thought him to be an anti-Semite because of his fierce hatred of Israel.

I gave him a chance recently, and found him to be virulently opposed to anti-Semitism and simply an anti-Zionist. I've even heard him bash anti-Semites. My opinion changed; I respected him.

But now I hear him bash Hitchens (posthumously) for supporting George Bush. But Hitchens called Galloway out for supporting Assad; you know, the guy who's been killing thousands lately. Ha!

[terratrema]

@miriitisw

Very well. I must say though, I don't very often see opponents of Israel being called "anti-Semites". That seems to be to be an incredibly rare occurrence, when you consider how widespread and virulent criticism of Israel is around all of Europe (and beyond).

But, any criticism of the excesses of Islam will undoubtedly lead to an accusation of "Islamophobia", which has become as stinging an insult as "racist", even though that makes no sense and is deeply sinister in nature

[miriitisw]

@terratrema I agree that "Islamophobe" is meaningless. But so is "anti-Semite".

[terratrema]

"I suppose the warmongers who killed *a million souls* in Iraq were equally moved..."

Oh. A million?

Did the British and American troops murder a million Iraqis?

Is that in any way true, or is that just total over-exaggerating bullsh*t that destroys one's argument and makes a mockery of oneself?

(The answer is the latter.)

[terratrema]

@miriitisw

The only meaningless term banded about at the moment is "Islamophobe", which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[miriitisw]

@TheSobek Falwell said 9/11 was a good thing. Hitchens spent a decade zealously promoting pointless wars in which millions of people died for no good reason, and thousands more were displaced. Neither of them are worthy of much praise.

[Seigu007]

@Goose993 stfu, you dumb atheist. Just shoot yourself and return to nature.

[TheSobek]

@miriitisw I don't consider it to be too low, I consider him to be wrong. Falwell was an awful, loathsome person and Hitchens was not. Not hard to understand.

[johnbaptist15]

Great George Galloway . . . .He has the greatness of Great Britain in him . . . .

[FearTactician]

ding dong the witch is dead