Posted on 05/27/2006 1:23:42 AM PDT by MadIvan
Controversial MP George Galloway has provoked a furious response over his remarks that bombing Tony Blair would be 'morally justified' over his decision to go to war in Iraq.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell said the remarks could act as an incitement to crime, whilst Labour MP Stephen Pound called Galloway 'disgraceful' and 'twisted'.
The row broke out after the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow was interviewed for an article in GQ magazine.
Mr Galloway was asked: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"
He replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of July 7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."
Sir Menzies Campbell condemned the remarks, saying they could encourage someone to carry out the crime.
He said: "If Mr Galloway is being accurately reported, he could well be regarded as providing encouragement to someone who might be disposed to carry out a crime of that kind.
"No politician, ever, by act, word, or deed either expressly or by implication, should give any support to the notion that violence might be justified."
Labour MP Stephen Pound said the Respect MP was "disgraceful" and "twisted".
"These comments take my breath away,' he said. "Galloway is disgraceful and truly twisted.
"Every time you think he can't sink any lower he goes and stuns you again. It's beyond reprehensible to say it would be justified for a suicide bomber to assassinate anyone."
This week, Mr Galloway joined Fidel Castro on a seven-hour TV show designed to rebut claims that the Cuban President has amassed a multi-million dollar personal fortune.
The MP compared his own struggle to disprove allegations that he took money from former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with President Castro's current battle against claims of secret wealth.
Mr Galloway has repeatedly denied claims he received cash from Saddam via oil deals.
The highest-profile denials came in a famously fiery appearance before a US senate committee that accused him of profiting from the Iraqi regime.
The senate committee confirmed that it had handed its report into the allegations over to several law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Galloway is evil.
The most effective way to deal with George Galloway would be for the media to totally ignore him. He would be entirely incapable of dealing with this and would self destruct in just a few days...
sounds like typical American left. He's got a voter base here in the states unfortunately
I'd pay good money to watch that. Scratch that. I'd welcome the chance to act as Mr. Malkovich's second.
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No, he should be arrested, convicted and inprisoned.
A society that cannot legally protect itself against such subversion in it's own government will not endure.
Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified'! (SICKO ALERT!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1638696/posts
Galloway: Blair's death would be justified
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1638939/posts
Police urged to investigate Galloway over 'Blair assassination' interview
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639096/posts
Murdering Blair is ‘morally justified’: Galloway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639114/posts
Just when you think this shambling compost heap of a man can't go any lower, he drills into the rock and breaks out the dynamite. I reckon he'll reach the earth's core any day now.
Bump!
Would the murder of Mr. Galloway be a sin?
Would it make a point to Islamofascists everywhere?
Mind you, this is not an encouragement or an endorsement of breaking the law, or of any act which would cause harm to Mr. Galloway.
I'd like to think that Galloway's constituents would kick him out on his ass come the next election. The leftists are certainly losing it.
Just who or what characterizes his constituency? We have our loony Left, but no one who is as certifiable as Galloway (I think).
I'd like to think our elected officials would have more on the ball than to issue a statement like this, but the rank and file left ceretianly don't.
Still, it's probably only a matter of time before some leftist wing-nut holding office makes some comment along these lines.
Over on DU they think he is wonderful. Poor things. They keep picking these indefensible nut jobs as champions.
They had a real hard time with McKinney. They make a lot of excuses over there for moral failings, but some Dems stretch even them. But that doesn't mean that even the the most depraved icons won't have backers there.
George vouching for Fidel on skimming money for personal gain is "Rich". Literally.
Galloway has unbruised skin, unbroken bones, and he can both walk and see.
Looks like he's gotten away clean, once again.
Galloways consituents are unemployed, uneducated Bangladeshis.
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