Christopher Hitchens versus Ritter: Iraq War debate PART 9

Christopher Hitchens and Scott Ritter duke it out over the Iraq war. ca 2006. Part 9

Ritter proves himself to be Hitchens' most formidable opponent in the Iraq war debates. He was intimately involved in the Gulf war, and in the events leading up to the Iraq war. He gives a very detailed account of the contradictions and hypocrisies of US policy toward Iraq. Hitchens largely agrees, but draws a different conclusion.

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[RUBENSolol]

@5147848amp "civilian-seeking missiles the caucasian forces are so fond of" What kind of racist paranoid idiot are you?

[MrSalamander7]

1:36 is the angriest I've ever heard Hitchens speak.

[batvette]

what hitchens says at the end is THE most powerful argument for the war in context of america's national security.

[batvette]

@MrSalamander7 it's also the most damning argument against war critics, whose only alternative to the war has been that things were just fine as they were, starving millions to death- until we mucked it up with a war that killed lots of people.

As for Iraq and 9/11 perhaps people are ignorant that 9/11 happened because of our policy in containing saddam- see Al Qaeda's 1998 fatwa.

[batvette]

"Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter said Iraq is capable of reconstituting a chemical weapons program within a matter of weeks. "

"I believe Iraq will seek to reconstitute a militarized nerve agent that will be used in a last ditch defense of Baghdad, and I think the Iraqi government's efforts to acquire significant stockpiles of atropine are an indication that this is the direction that Saddam Hussein is heading," Ritter said on CNN's "Crossfire."

CNN Nov. 2002 No WMD?

[sinistar99]

@RUBENSolol Obviously it's a hyperbole.  I mean the technology just isn't there yet. The point I think is things like cluster bombs which kill a huge number of civilians.

[RUBENSolol]

@sinistar99 Do you really think that coalition forces in Iraq use "civilian-seeking missiles"? In that case, you have no sense of reality.

[sinistar99]

@5147848amp Somebody who gets it! But we can't talk about the victims of the invasion can we? We're not allowed. Another thing Hitchens doesn't like to talk about conveniently are the many terrorist attacks in Turkey by his angelic Kurdish friends. We changed Iraq from a secular government to a terrorist training ground under Shira law. Great move. Kurds were rebelling weren't they? Try to over throw this government and see if they don't respond with violence.

[sinistar99]

@RUBENSolol So you have to be a racist paranoid idiot to give a rats ass about the massive number of civilians killed with our tons and tons of random cluster bombs and munitions?  They've kill thousands of regular peopls mostly children. What kind of a sick psychopathic sadist are you?

[sinistar99]

@TheDavid2222 ...and "Give me Liberty or give me death.." isn't so noble if you're talking about somebody else's death. It's a lot more convenient though and a lot easier to say. Chickenhawks are very cavilier and brave with other people's lives. Never their own. And that "free society" is now under Shira Law. Sorry ladies, can't drive a car or go out without a burkah now. Some "freedom" whith that kind of liberty who needs oppression!

[Jmsadv]

@sinistar99 lol, Yeah Hitchens could go fight but then we would lose.