Thursday, June 02, 2005

An amusing interchange between Hitchens and Germaine Greer on the Iraq war:
Labour Friends of Iraq - Christopher Hitchens and others debate Iraq on Start the Week 30 May 2005
Christopher Hitchens – Germaine, can I just say very quickly, to the extent that you are right that there was international collusion in the rule of the Ba’ath party- and you are right to some extent - doesn’t that double our responsibility to cancel that debt to the Iraqis?

Germaine Greer – Oh! That’s a tricky way of thinking about it.

CH – What’s tricky about it?

Germaine Greer - I thought we agreed that this war wasn’t fought for regime change but now it turns out that it was and you knew all along. Well, the rest of us are a bit surprised.

Christopher Hitchens – Well, the rest of you should have been paying more attention.

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