There was a live thread last night on this debate. Check the link for Freeper opinions real time.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484635/posts
Who won that debate?
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Meaning they are anti-American more than they are pro anything. Also, the old argument that we supported Saddam during the 80s because we backed him rather than the Ayatollahs of Iran is miscast. We supplied him with very little material help. He was armed by the Soviets and that was why he owed Russia so much money when they opposed our deposing him.
Thank you for a very lucid and rational critique that brought out both sides of the debate. I doubt anyone in the media could have done it better.
The boos for Galloway over the 9/11 comments which were truly repugnant came from the small contingent of Iraq war supporters in the crowd, maybe 15% of the whole. Most of the audience applauded these remarks blaming the US for 9/11.
I happened to be fortunately sitting in a pocket of pro-Hitchens including a soldier who had been in Iraq and his Mom. We were as loud as possible to counter the crowd.
Hitchens set up Galloway rather cleverly. Hitchens spent his first 13 minutes of the segment adressing the issue - the justness of the Iraq War. In the last 2 minutes he attacked Galloway on OFF and coddling dictators like Assad.
When Galloway responded he was immediately on the defensive addressing the attacks rather than debating the topic.