Posted on 04/22/2003 10:04:19 PM PDT by The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
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| Rant ... at anti-war demo in London last month |
By DAVID WOODING
Whitehall Editor
GALLOWAY’S treachery has often been exposed by The Sun — but he sunk to his lowest depths when Gulf War II began.
We revealed this month how the traitor urged the Arab world to rise up and KILL British troops in Iraq.
He branded Blair and Bush “wolves” and Our Boys war criminals.
And he called on Gulf states to cripple the West by cutting off oil supplies.
Mr Blair branded his comments “disgraceful” in an exclusive interview with The Sun last week.
Galloway, 48, first entered politics aged 26 in his home town of Dundee — where he flew the PLO flag over the town hall and withdraw the city’s hospitality to visiting NATO warships.
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| Kiss ... posing with Iraqi cancer girl Mariam in 1998 |
Even in his early career as a charity boss, controversy was never far away.
He was criticised for drawing lavish expenses as general secretary of War on Want between 1983 and 1987.
An inquiry cleared him of alleged fraud. In 1987 he defeated Roy Jenkins to become MP for Glasgow Hillhead, now Glasgow Kelvin.
Galloway made an instant impact in the Commons by talking openly about his sexual antics on working trips.
In his first Press conference as an MP he admitted: “I spent lots of time with people in Greece, many of whom were women, some of whom were known carnally to me.”
He also branded Scottish Tories “drunk, stupid and unemployable”.
Galloway shares a Glasgow flat with wife Aminah Abu-Zayyhad, a niece of PLO chief Yasser Arafat.
But it was his links with Saddam Hussein that really made him hated.
The tyrant always rolled out the red carpet whenever Galloway — dubbed the Honourable Member for Baghdad Central — dropped in.
In a 1994 speech he addressed Saddam as “Your Excellency, Mr President.”
He also appeared to say: “Sir, allow me to salute your courage, your strength and your indefatigability.”
Galloway later insisted the tribute was aimed at Iraqi people — and that he uttered the word “so” not “sir”.
But a former pal said: “George has become an apologist for a grotesque regime.”
Scroll down about 2/3 of the way on the Sun page to find this piece, which didn't get posted (I searched) presumably because it occupies the same page on the Sun site as another article, which did get posted.
I found it through the Command Post, which highlighted the Arafat relationship, of which I was unaware.
Welcome to FR, Sir Galahad.
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