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.
Galloway's constituency these days is in east London, not Scotland.
Oh, I realize that the Kos Kids and DU denizens are Galloway clowns, but I don't think that there is a national legislator that is quite as outrageous as Galloway.
Don't they (the Bangladeshis) have any of their own who want to be in parliament? Why hire a white guy to do it for you when you can do it yourself?
Regards, Ivan
You know, you guys have a perfectly good Tower that's going to waste...
What might Sir Winston Churchill said of this guttersnipe?
I think he might have said something similar to what he said about Ramsay MacDonald (Britain's first Labor PM):
"We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought."
Conyers and his mock impeachment, and McDermott and his visit to Iraq come to mind. Durbins comment about Gitmo, Kerry's rape comments, and those loons with the "Shoot their officers" banner are pretty bad, too..
LOL. Galloway is a mental case.
Hell
I'd like to be John Wayne to his Jimmy Stewart in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
Something tells me that the GQ interviewer either deserves a beating for asking the question, or he deserves a medal for setting this slime up and showing just how despicable he really is.
Representative government, networking for failure...
It's not enough to "condemn" an MP who suggests assasination of the Prime Minister Tony Blair. He should serve serious time in jail. Anyone who makes a public threat is capable of carrying it out.
Can we dress him first?
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