Well Done Gorgeous George!

What a good talker. I dont know the ins and outs of this but a good talker/speaker can get you into many places.
 
No matter - rather an a-hole who can kick the arses of those canting hypocrites (LOVED the references to Donald Rumsfeld's many visits to Saddam - 'over there selling Saddam guns and maps to show where to shoot them') than a lickspittle.

I don't even care if he did actually benefit a bit from his position - when you see the millions of dollars' worth of vested interests Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and senators beyond counting had in companies either selling first TO Saddam, and/or then AGAINST Saddam, you just want to puke all over them.
 
As much as criticism of the US Govt is well deserved and their pious conversion away from supporting Saddam is contemptible ( as of course was Thatcher and her govt witness the Arms to Iraq affair )

I can't have anything but contempt for a man who said to Saddam

" Sir, I salute your courage , your strength , your indefatigability"
 
He said he deeply regretted those words and he made it clear it was aimed at the Iraqi people and not personally at Saddam. Whether that is the case or not, everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt.

I have read a lot about George Galloway for the past 5 years, I consider myself quite knowledgable of the political side of him. He was the MP in an area I am very familiar with for a while.

What he did yesterday he did in the name of self-justice. He was accused of something and defended himself.
 
George Galloway sucked up to Saddam - so did many of the current US administration in the past.

It seems to me that there have been two attempts to stitch hm up and I'm surprised that the stitchers haven't managed a better job.

Gorgeous George deserves the plaudits for his Oscar standard performance yesterday - I'm particularly impressed by his comments to the war supporting writer Christopher Hitchens: "You're a drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay. Your hands are shaking. You badly ned another drink".

He can be however, when he wants to be, a nasty piece of work as he and his cohorts showed recently in Bethnal Green. But he is a politician - what else can we expect?
 
George's bravura and highly enjoyable performance was marred by his incorrect assumption that Senator Levin, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, was in favour of the war. He wasn't and he opposed the appointment of Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State claiming that she had deliberately distorted and exaggerated the intelligence indicating that Iraq might possess weapons of mass destruction and that she had falsely implied a link between the Baghdad dictator and Al Qaeda terrorists.
 
I watched it end to end . I nearly fell off my chair when he started off by saying "I know standards have slipped somewhat in Washington in the last few years " :lol:
I do agree that he's a nasty piece of work but by god he did a great job of showing the Bush administration for what they are . I thought the Donald Rumsfeld reference was genius . I thought he highlighted the hypocrisy of the whole business very well . Given that his speech went out live on CNN etc I would like to know what americans who watched made of him . . When he equated the sanctions against Iraq as infanticide you could hear a pin drop but he was playing to the american audience too in the reference to 1600 american troops killed for "a pack of lies " .
 
Hit every nail on the head, Sols. Given most politicians' predilection for swerving straight answers (or even any sort of an answer), this must've felt like a punch from Mohammed Ali to the assembled. I noticed the faces of some of the (I assume) journos behind him - when he did the Rumsfeld body-tackle, they looked absolutely enraptured. No doubt he said a lot of things that few have dared to voice in the USA. And in a calm, measured, strong way, too. Whatever he is, the Americans deserved what they got from him.
 
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