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Galloway condemned for 'bomb Blair' comments
The Daily Mail ^ | May 27, 2006 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blair; cuba; galloway; terrorism
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To: Ninian Dryhope

Galloway's constituency these days is in east London, not Scotland.


21 posted on 05/27/2006 4:21:07 AM PDT by Canard
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To: I still care

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.


22 posted on 05/27/2006 4:36:19 AM PDT by moneyrunner (I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed to its idolatries a patient knee.)
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To: English Nationalist

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?


23 posted on 05/27/2006 4:38:08 AM PDT by moneyrunner (I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed to its idolatries a patient knee.)
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To: moneyrunner
For an individual of Bangladeshi origins, they would have had to vote Conservative.

Regards, Ivan

24 posted on 05/27/2006 4:56:50 AM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan
Hang him. Or set John Malkovich on him.

You know, you guys have a perfectly good Tower that's going to waste...

25 posted on 05/27/2006 5:01:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: MadIvan

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."


26 posted on 05/27/2006 5:13:27 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: moneyrunner
Just who or what characterizes his constituency? We have our loony Left, but no one who is as certifiable as Galloway (I think).

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..

27 posted on 05/27/2006 6:04:55 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Kerry-Mcarthy in 2008!)
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To: MadIvan
Or set John Malkovich on him...

LOL. Galloway is a mental case.

28 posted on 05/27/2006 6:21:31 AM PDT by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Lurker

Hell

I'd like to be John Wayne to his Jimmy Stewart in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".


29 posted on 05/27/2006 6:24:31 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: MadIvan
Hang him indeed, and televise it.

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.

30 posted on 05/27/2006 7:51:07 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Try Jesus--If you don't like Him, satan will always take you back.)
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To: English Nationalist

Representative government, networking for failure...


31 posted on 05/27/2006 7:57:43 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the U.S. Senate were a sewage plant, they'd have to shut the thing down to clean up the place.)
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To: MadIvan

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.


32 posted on 05/27/2006 10:11:31 AM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: R.W.Ratikal; MadIvan
He should serve serious time in jail.

Can we dress him first?


33 posted on 05/30/2006 3:33:47 AM PDT by Watery Tart (We wouldn't want anyfing to 'appen to it… –Luigi Vercotti)
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