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.
The first of many. Yo, Sen Durbin, you are getting slow.
Does the consensus opinion of Gallowy's constituency really mirror his thinking? Who are these people?
Well I wonder about that...if indeed Bethnal Green & Bow's constituents agree with him, they need to be arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Regards, Ivan
Galloway should be hanged for sedition and treason.
There is nothing Galloway can be called that wouldn't be demeaning to whatever he would be compared to.
You'll get no argument from me. Galloway deserves a bullet in the back of the head for his comments.
Regards, Ivan
WOW! it was only HOURS before the attacks from the enemies within began.
The blood is in the streets, the wounds are LITERALLY still open and the bodies of the dead not even cold.
...and yet these demagogues are ready to surrender.
Hang them too. The more the merrier!
More that what Galloway says , what really makes me sick is that an Osama fan like him gets to be the democratically elected MP from London , UK.
I suspect some of them were involved in the attacks myself.
Galloway is probably like Chirac in that his idiocy is going to increasingly embarass his constituents over time.
Regards, Ivan
Saddam needs a traitor
Who would he pay as a traitor -- Galloway
Happy to be serving
His support remained unswerving -- Galloway
Lower than a sewer rat is
Look and that's what you see
Whose account was getting fat -- his
How come this slime is -- an MP
Saddam needs a traitor
Who would he pay as a traitor -- Galloway
Some think he's just wacky
But he's been the tyrant's lackey -- come what may
Who knows if he'll go to prison
He should be there today
Some one's in need of shunning
Let him feel the public shunning -- Galloway...Galloway
Scum, absolute scum!
KILL THIS EVIL PIG!
Someone FIND A WAY to make him scream in his own BLOOD! Lety HIM be the next one blown up!
I have HAD it with Socailist and the outright EVIL....KILL HIM and the REST like him!!!!!
Gallooway's constituents are proud of him..atleast majority of them. Make no mistake about that. He is their voice. He was a known Saddam and Al Qaeda support long before he stood for elections. And thats the reason he got elected.
If there is any true justice in this world, there will be one final terrorist attack in the U.k. with just one victim:
George Galloway, whose last words will be "SADDAM!!!! I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED YOU!!!!"
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