https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/dacb333f-10e6-434f-82ad-1a176346180a In May 2005, George Galloway walked into the US Senate and accused senators of having blood on their hands. He left as a folk hero to the anti-war movement. Five months later, he faced Christopher Hitchens in a sold-out New York debate — 1,000 people, Baruch College, moderated by Amy Goodman. Hitchens had once been a left-wing journalist: pro-Palestinian, anti-war, skeptical of American power. After 9/11, he became one of the most prominent intellectual voices supporting the invasion of Iraq. Galloway's strategy wasn't to attack that transformation head-on. He praised it. He listed every position Hitchens had held and abandoned: opposing the 1991 Gulf War, defending Palestinian groups, challenging American militarism. Then he delivered his verdict. "The first ever metamorphosis from a butterfly back into a slug. And I mentioned slug purposefully — the one thing a slug does leave behind it is a trail of slime." Hitchens died in 2011. He never publicly admitted he was wrong about Iraq. The insult has outlasted both of them. #Galloway #Hitchens #IraqWar #Debate #History #Politics Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:41:19 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/dacb333f-10e6-434f-82ad-1a176346180a All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.