Posted on 07/07/2005 12:59:15 PM PDT by Mensch
Londoners have paid the price for Iraq and Afghanistan, says George Galloway.
The Respect MP, whose Bethnal Green and Bow constituency includes the site of at least one of the bomb attacks, said the attacks were "despicable".
But he told MPs it was the US-led coalition's actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo which had inflamed hatred of the West in the Muslim world.
In response, minister Adam Ingram accused Mr Galloway of "dipping his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood".
The armed forces minister added that Mr Galloway's comments were "disgraceful".
Same mistakes?
Earlier Mr Galloway said he was absolutely clear the bombings had been carried out by Islamic extremists inspired by Osama Bin Laden's world outlook.
He argued that the bombings had not come out of the "clear blue sky" - the background was the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, photographs of abuses by US troops at Abu Ghraib prison and the continuing confinement of people by America at Guantanamo.
Mr Galloway said the West was in danger of making the same mistakes over and over again, continuing with "war and occupation as the principal instrument of our foreign and defence policy".
He added: "And if we do then some people will get through and hurt us as they have hurt us today."
Paid the price?
Mr Galloway who was expelled from the Labour Party over his outspoken comments on the Iraq war, linked the deaths of people in London to the deaths of those in Falluja at the hands of coalition forces.
Earlier, in a statement, the MP said: "The loss of innocent lives, whether in this country or Iraq, is precisely the result of a world that has become a less safe and peaceful place in recent years.
"We have worked without rest to remove the causes of such violence from our world.
"We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain.
"Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings."
He urged the government to remove people in the UK from "harm's way" by ending the occupation of Iraq and focusing on finding a real solution to conflicts in the Middle East.
Downing Street declined to comment on Mr Galloway's comments.
They couldn't even wait one day.
A cowardly appeaser.
And a fool if he thinks that the assault on the West began after the liberation of Iraq.
Guess he figures Lockerbie was a fluke?
He has it bass ackwards. The liberation of Iraq is the price of terrorism.
Looks like Britain has their own Dickhead Durbin.
What was Galloway's price? I forget.
So GB has their own Durbin.
The whore Galloway is still performing for Saddam.
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Cuz innocents always deserved to be attacked, right? You moron? Why didnt these bombers pick a military target...why? Cuz they're cowardly criminals than deserve to be put to the sword.
HEY GALLOWAY DONT YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE ROUTING FOR THE GOOD GUYS...if not...then STFU or ESAD.
This is outrageous !!
"But he told MPs it was the US-led coalition's actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo which had inflamed hatred of the West in the Muslim world."
If it was Afghanistan, Iraq and Guitmo that caused hatred, why were we attacked on September 11th? Does Galloway think that Muslim terrorists are psychic. Psychotic, yes.
Hey Galloway, get the he!! out of the way.
Hey, Galloway, so the attacks in London were because we attacked Iraq, right? The attacks on 9/11 were because what again?
That cowardly appeaser had his way with our Senate oil-for-food committee though.
Hey Galloway, tell that to the Thais, the Filipinos, the Israelis, Serbs in and around Kosovo, and residents of various African nations where the Islamokazis are busy religiously-cleansing the areas.
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