Posted on 05/18/2003 7:04:57 AM PDT by knighthawk
George Galloway launched a typically defiant attack on Tony Blair, as he made his first public address in Scotland since being suspended by the Labour Party.
Addressing a Globalise Resistance rally in Glasgow, Mr Galloway said the Prime Minister had betrayed the UK by putting the country into the "the first ranks of the hated on the earth".
During a 30-minute speech, Mr Galloway again dismissed claims that he had received 15 million US dollars (£9.25 million) from Saddam Hussein's regime, and warned Labour against using his suspension to ensure he could not be selected as a party candidate at the next election. The Glasgow Kelvin MP also said he believed Clare Short had done more damage to New Labour by resigning when she did than if she had quit before war in Iraq.
Mr Galloway told the 200-strong audience everything that those who had warned against launching the conflict had predicted was "coming home to roost".
"We told them if you commit this crime, you will make this world an even more dangerous place than it already is," he said.
"Since when, explosion after explosion has ripped the heart out of city after city, murdered innocent people in their dozens, if not hundreds, set civilisation against civilisation, made more people around the world hate us any more intensely than they did already.
"Country after country is now out of bounds for British travellers ... There's hardly a country in the world where it's now safe for a British person to travel, according to our own Foreign Office.
"By putting us in the first ranks of the hated in the earth, Tony Blair is the one who has betrayed this country, not me and not you.
"If there's a treason in this picture it is those who have sold our country to a foreign power, who have decided that it is our fate to be the tail of a dog whose head is the virtually imbecilic right-wing republican fundamentalist George W Bush."
This was a fate rejected by the "vast majority" of Britons, Mr Galloway claimed, whether or not they agreed with him on the war in Iraq or not. "They reject the idea that we were born to be the auxiliary of a country with the size of a giant, but led by a man with the mind of a child," he added, claiming Mr Blair would be "brought down" should he embark on another war.
Mr. Galloway????? Mr. Rootie Kazootie???? What happened to them? They were here just a moment ago! They were standing right in the middle of a crowd of women and children at this shopping mall but the women and children are missing too! So is the shopping mall. Oh well, any questions?
George is running out of cliches.
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