Don’t usually post on Middle Eastern affairs unless they involve Korea, but was watching some of Scottish MP George Galloway’s better interviews over at Coming Anarchy. Particularly liked the “Arab world’s beautiful daughters, Jerusalem and Baghdad, in the hands of foreigners” analogy. Very colorful imagery. And speaking of the Arab world’s beautiful daughters, the anchor isn’t half bad.
And while you’re at it, commenter Sun Bin directs us to this, well, “emotionally charged” Galloway interview with Sky News. Be sure to watch it.
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Galloway is an ass:
In 1994 Mr Galloway stood before Saddam Hussein and said: “Your excellency, Mr President, I greet you in the name of the many thousands of people in Britain who stood against the tide and opposed the war and aggression against Iraq and continue to oppose the war by economic means, which is aimed to strangle the life out of the great people of Iraq … I greet you too in the name of the Palestinian people … I thought the president would appreciate to know that even today, three years after the war, I still meet families who are calling their newborn sons Saddam. Sir, I salute your courage, your strength your indefatigability. And I want you to know that we are with you until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem.” (The Times, January 20 1994.)
http://politics.guardian.co.uk.....83,00.html
Galloway – the brave leftwinger – does not believe that democracy is suitable for developing countries. He lauds Fidel Castro – who has ruled Cuba without a single democratic election for 46 years and driven a quarter of the island’s population into exile – as ‘a great hero’ and ‘not a dictator, not at all.’ When the military staged an anti-democratic coup in Pakistan in 1999, Galloway wrote in his weekly column for the Tory newspaper the Mail on Sunday: ‘In poor third-world countries like Pakistan, politics is too important to be left to petty squabbling politicians. Pakistan is always on the brink of breaking apart into its widely disparate components. Only the armed forces can really be counted on to hold such a country together… Democracy is a means, not an end in itself.’
http://www.progressives.org.uk.....icleid=882
As John Malkovich said, bitching about this guy only gives him oxygen, and he is an O2 thief.
Funny how he supported the takeover in Pakistan by the military and yet, now they are allies of those hated fiends, the Yankees.
Ooops. Malkovich was referring to Fisk, but the same principle applies.