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Uncommon Knowledge: Christopher Hitchens

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Partner:: Hoover Institution
Location:: Hoover Institution
Stanford, CA
Event Date:: 08.23.07
Speakers:: Christopher Hitchens,; Peter Robinson
Tags:: iraq; iraq war; george w. bush; kurdistan

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

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is an author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2008.

Peter Robinson

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits the Hoover Institution'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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29 min 45 sec

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01.: Introduction

00 min 11 sec

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02.: Is America's Troop Surge Working?

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' Speech

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's, Hitchens' Mistakes and Accomplishments

05 min 16 sec

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Christopher Hitchens on Withdrawal from Iraq

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Christopher Hitchens, author, columnist and vocal supporter of the U.S. war in Iraq, discusses possible consequences were the U.S. to rapidly withdraw from the country.
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