The First half of that debate was Amazing. Galloway won on the first rebbuttal, that was pretty much inevitable. This is the first time ive heard someone but he seemed to get fazed by the heckling that rose when he mentioned that th Seeds for 911 were planted by the USA.
It would have been nice if he had mentioned the PNAC too, but you can't have everything. Did you see a video of this? It sounds as though a riot broke out.
It cleared up a few questions I've had about hitch. He has no illusions that the US will install popular democracy but uses the term to describe the reality. It is only Democracy if it has the right outcome. That is; it is subservient to US intrests.
As I see it you can talk all you like about democratising the middle east but you have to look at whose doing the implementing. We can see from their track record and from what is coming out of the think tanks that these men do'nt give a shit about popular democracy. They're hostile to it. If they really gave a shit about democracy and human rights they would'nt have spent the last 50 years removing from power and murdering left leaning Democrats in favour of Fundamentalist Authoritarians like Saddam.
I strongly believe the Neocons are trying to provoke another attack on US soil to muster the kind of support they had after 911. Theres too much open talk about unprovoked nuclear strikes for this not to be the case.