Darksword said:the head of the green party right? isnt he the only one in the green party to have a seat in the house of commons? i cant remember exactly if they won a seat or not and i could probably find out in a second but im just too lazy, in fact id have found out by the time ive typed up to here...
anyway he will be intresting in parliament, as the only green party candidate and probably the most libral in the house of commons, he will be opposing alot of stuff
Ormorof said:respect party
and he's great, "do i LOOK like an oil billionaire?"
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4553601.stm]BBC News[/url] said:George Galloway had vowed to give US senators "both barrels" and after sitting - coiled - through an hour-and-half of testimony against him, he unloaded all his ammunition.
On stage at the heart of American power, he attacked the US-led war on Iraq and accused Washington of installing a "puppet" regime there.
"I have a rather better record of opposition to Saddam Hussein than you do, and than any member of the British or American governments do," he told the committee.
The biggest sanctions busters were American companies "with the connivance" of the US Government, he argued.
Mr Galloway said he had met Saddam Hussein on two occasions - the same number of times as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war," he said.
He rubbished committee chairman Norm Coleman's dossier of evidence and stared him in the eye.
"Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice," the MP declared.
The whole room scanned Mr Coleman's face for a reaction. The senator shifted in his seat - nervously it seemed.
It was Republican Mr Coleman who bore the brunt of the attack in one of the Senate's most flamboyant confrontations.
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong," he told the chairman, whom he labelled a "neo-con, pro-war hawk".
One observer of Capitol Hill politics declared the result: "Galloway by a knockout - before round five."
Others cast the confrontation as Braveheart on Capitol Hill.
Rediknight said:He's more labour than "new" labour :m00
actually, i would imagine he's an absolute arsehole if you met him in a pub, but its agreed you can't knock the stand he's taking - he might as well have turned up there offering everyone out he'd spank Cheneys arse, i'd bet - even if Rumsfeld AND Rice snuck in and triple teamed him!! Hell, it'd be awesome if he did!!! Picture the scene late on:
"OH MY GOOOOOOOODDD!!!! Galloway has just driven that chair right into Mr Cheneys HEART!!! Look!! Condoleeza is up on her feet again!! She's hittin the top rope - Here comes the RICEing Sun!! GALLOWAY IS MEAT!!! I HAVE NEVER, IN MY 347 YEARS OF POLITICAL COMMENTATING Seen ANYTHING like that"
*cue sound of falling cash, and strains of music*
"MEAN GENE, LOOK, ITS Tony "THE TIGER" Bliar, and his partner GOLDEN BROWN!! BROWN Has a chair!! Looks like this is the end for Galloway now - Blair has him held up and Browns about to remove his face with that solid steel chai... OH MY GOD!!! THE DOUBLE CROSS!!! BROWN TOOK OUT BLIAR AND NOW HE'S GOING AFTER "THE WHITEHOUSE KRU"!!! RICE IS BOWLED OUT!!! DONALD SHOULD'VE DUCKED!! CHENEY's A PR!CK!!!!! IT'S all over now folks - Brown helps Galloway to his feet, and they celebrate - the crowds going totally apathetic, and i, for one, cannot WAIT for the rematch at SummerLame '06!"
holy crap i must be bored... :|
Lamont said:And get this right... george Galloway was the MP who travelled to Iraq and gave a stomach-churningly ass-licking speech to Saddam Hussein saying, and I quote, 'we respect you, we honour you'.. this was just AFTER Saddam had gassed thousands of his countrymen in the North..... fact.
Lamont said:But I cannot agree that Galloway is anything other than an arrogant attention-seeking deluded wanna-be anarchist with a chip on his shoulder. He has no intention of doing what is right for his constituency, and his actions have and will create even more racial tension in an area of London that could well do without it.
perfect representation of a result of the propaganda machineLamont said:Are you guys serious?
George Galloway is an opportunistic demagogue.
He lost his seat up in Glasgow because the locals thought he was an arse...
So you know where he decides to go?
A seat in london where most of the voters are Muslims represented by a half-caste woman.
His campaign to THEM was disgusting. Basically she was voted out after the clerics down there asked every one of their respective mosques to vote for George Galloway. Most of those voters didn't have a CLUE what Galloway stood for, they just knew the clerics wanted him in.
And get this right... george Galloway was the MP who travelled to Iraq and gave a stomach-churningly ass-licking speech to Saddam Hussein saying, and I quote, 'we respect you, we honour you'.. this was just AFTER Saddam had gassed thousands of his countrymen in the North..... fact.
Yes, I agree the Americans are twats that are victims of their own policies. Yes, I agree George W. is an idiot who bought and cheated his way to the most powerful job in the world. And yes I agree that Galloway is making those same Americans ask some serious questions about themselves...
But I cannot agree that Galloway is anything other than an arrogant attention-seeking deluded wanna-be anarchist with a chip on his shoulder. He has no intention of doing what is right for his constituency, and his actions have and will create even more racial tension in an area of London that could well do without it.
Well done George! uke:
Kami said:I'm not a fan of politics and certainly wasn't of him. But the way he's giving it to the yanks if sodding hilarious. Man deserves a fricken medal for not taking any shit from anyone.
this was just AFTER Saddam had gassed thousands of his countrymen in the North..... fact.
Ormorof said:you do realise it was sold to him by the british right?
thats how they knew (or thought they knew) he had WMD's, they bloody sold them to him!
i think he's an arsehole, but sometimes you need to be an arse to get things done
Ezteq said:i hate polititians, all of em wish they'd all crawl back under the rocks from whenst they came.
saw this bloke plays pc stamp from tv show "the bill" on the paul o'gradey show this afternoon, tbh he should be prime minister that dude rocked.
Rediknight said:I don't mean to be rotten to the yanks bu... well, yeah your right, i couldn't care less, but still... but in this country, if a celebrity put themselves up on a political pedestal like that, everyone would go "awww, isn't that sweet!!! now, heres a biscuit and a cheque for £8bajillion, go play on the swings", in America, the day Arnie runs for the White House - and he will - i'm gonna go lay a few quid on him gettin in. America idolise celebrity and take the word to a whole new level - i mean half of every major city has a real bean-dip IQ and believe that Stallone really did go to Nam, or Korea, or wherever Cheney and Rumsfeld want to betray as "evil" this week, and convince Bush to invade, with the backing of the Media-terrorised population.
The few with enough braincells to stand up and ask what in the pissing hell is going on, are shouted down by the louder ones... usually their the ones with the guns too, so... erm... there's probably a point there somewhere, but i rambled and i have no idea where i was going now...
ooh, i got some jaffa cakes in the cupboard i think
Ormorof said:you do realise it was sold to him by the british right?
thats how they knew (or thought they knew) he had WMD's, they bloody sold them to him!
Hawkwind said:Why do you think the world is twitchy about Iran setting up reactors capable of producing enriched plutonium. Because the Islamic fanatics are the only people still crazy enough to use a nuclear device.
Adoctor said:I think u'll find that now Iran has signed a trade aggrement with europe that they have opened up the nuclear program to inspection.
I would be more concerned about some of the ex-soviet states and their nuclear arsenal.
Hawkwind said:Matrix Churchil (excuse sp) was one of the companies involved in selling stuff but that was mainly for the Swiss/German designed Supergun. Many US, UK, German, Swiss and French companies were also selling chemicals for 'agriculture'! Many of the chemicals had dual uses and it was known.
As stated in previous post the reason the West sold arms to Saddam was beacuse he was our hero holding back the Fundamentalist Fanatics. The West was scared of what a combined IRAQ/IRAN (Islamic Super State as it was duped) could mean for the future. The control over a large percentage of the worlds oil reserve was scarey enough. This is also the reason they did not finish the job during Desert Storm I. The thought of a weak Iraq falling to Iran was unthinkable and still is.
Why do you think the world is twitchy about Iran setting up reactors capable of producing enriched plutonium. Because the Islamic fanatics are the only people still crazy enough to use a nuclear device.
Adoctor said:I would be more concerned about some of the ex-soviet states and their nuclear arsenal.
Rookiescot said:Agree with almost all you have said here except for the infered use of "Agro-chemicals" as a WMD.
While there are several nasty "Agro-chemicals" in existance it would be pointless using them as a WMD. They are quite exspensive and why would you want to use those when you can knock up a plant to make Phosgene or Chlorine gas using simple equipment readily available on the open market.