The following is a transcript of last week's debate between Christopher Hitchens and  George Galloway at Baruch College. The whole text was compiled by George Gooding and appears at Seixon.com -- The Editors.

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CH = Christopher Hitchens
GG = George Galloway
AG = Amy Goodman (moderator)

CH: Um, thank you.

Thank you very much Amy, um, you can take it out of my time, but I would propose that we begin with a moment of silence for the 160 people who were sadistically murdered in Baghdad this morning as they went to their places of work or stayed in their places of abode, and as they hoped to register for the upcoming elections. I hope I can get an agreement for a moment of respect for them.

Very good and I thought those comments were also very worth hearing.

I'm very grateful to the organizers for making this possible, I consider it a great distinction to stand on the podium of Baruch College, named for the great Bernard Baruch who first in 1946 proposed that weapons of mass destruction be placed under international inspection and control.

Um, I'm grateful to the audience also for giving me the chance to revisit my misspent Trotskyist days, dishing out a leaflet in steaming heat on the street outside, made me feel, and look, I hope, much younger.

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