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Uncommon Knowledge: Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens - Christopher Hitchens is an author, journalist and literary critic. Now living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Nation and Slate; additionally, he is an occasional contributor to many other publications.

Peter Robinson - Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA.

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01.: Introduction

00 min 11 sec

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02.: Is America

02 min 49 sec

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03.: Kurdish Threatened

01 min 14 sec

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04.: Levels of Violence in Baghdad

01 min 09 sec

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05.: Gains of Secular Democratic Government

01 min 42 sec

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06.: Opinion on Prime Minister Maliki

01 min 16 sec

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07.: Catastrophic Levels of Violence in Iraq

01 min 53 sec

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08.: Splitting Up Iraq

01 min 50 sec

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09.: Positive Responses to Iraq War

02 min 17 sec

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10.: Future Negative Impacts

02 min 59 sec

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11.: General Petraeus

02 min 33 sec

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12.: Comparison to Vietnam

01 min 47 sec

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13.: 2009 American Presidential Election

02 min 31 sec

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14.: Bush

05 min 16 sec

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Christopher Hitchens on Withdrawal from Iraq

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Partner:: Hoover Institution
Location:: Hoover Institution
Stanford, CA
Event Date:: 08.23.07
Speakers:: Christopher Hitchens,; Peter Robinson

Summary: Christopher Hitchens On Iraq

This program is part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, Uncommon Knowledge.

What is the situation on the ground in Iraq - militarily and politically? Should the United States stay or withdraw, and what would be the consequences of each? Christopher Hitchens, one of the war's most ardent supporters, analyzes the current battle taking place in America over the direction and management of this most divisive of wars and argues that it is imperative that America stand by its commitment to the people of Iraq - Hoover Institution