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Paid to be a traitor (Galloway)
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 04/22/03 | Trevor Kavanaugh

Posted on 04/21/2003 7:15:24 PM PDT by Pokey78


Sickening ... Galloway presents Saddam with
pennant in Baghdad in 1994

THE world has produced some evil, twisted men throughout history. Saddam Hussein is one of them.

Treacherous Labour MP George Galloway is another.

The so-called Honourable Member for Glasgow Kelvin emerged last night as the paid mouthpiece for one of the most despicable regimes of torture and mass murder in modern times.

Papers found in the Iraqi capital — but never expected to see the light of day — prove Galloway was an employee of Saddam’s sadistic state machine.

In return for a gigantic £375,000-a-year, stolen from the impoverished Iraqi people, this traitor toured the world’s media proclaiming the Butcher of Baghdad a kind and decent human being.


Hero ... Galloway in front of Saddam portrait

As an honoured guest, he visited Saddam last year in his bomb-proof shelter far below the surface of the Iraqi desert.

Along with offers of Quality Street chocolates, laid on to prove his love of all things British, Galloway swallowed Saddam’s claim to be the equal of wartime hero Winston Churchill.

Yet when British troops went into battle to remove this despot from power, Galloway despicably urged the Arab world to rise up and kill them.

There have long been questions over the way a nonentity backbencher like Galloway could afford his lavish lifestyle of fast cars and fast women.

His constant travel, always first class, could never be funded by an MP’s pay or from proceeds of his litigious pursuit of so-called defamation claims.


Branded ... Sun front page

Galloway is a silver-tongued bully who has always been surrounded by a cloud of suspicion over his shifty activities, his manipulation of other people’s cash and his readiness to punch anyone he could not sue.

He left a slippery trail of scandal wherever he went, from the finances of the once mighty charity War on Want to the funding of his local constituency Labour Party.

Once, while quizzed too closely for comfort on his dodgy dealings, he amazed journalists by admitting extra-marital “carnal” relations to put them off the money trail.

A congenital liar, his favourite defence trick was total denial. If that failed, he would claim he had been misquoted.

So when he was overheard publicly praising Saddam Hussein’s leadership in standing up to the West, he claimed he was talking about the Iraqi people.

A vicious anti-Israeli ranter, he boasted that he sometimes dreamed he was part of an army wading ashore waving a Kalashnikov and driving the Jewish nation into the sea.

When this remark became known, he claimed he had been quoted out of context.

But nothing could distort the clear message he delivered in his interview last year with Saddam Hussein for a national Sunday newspaper.

The stomach-churning article made no reference to the callous acts of dismemberment and routine execution carried out under Saddam’s personal orders.

At no point did Galloway ask the tyrant about the torture chambers in the dungeons of Saddam’s palaces.

Or the systematic slaughter, rape and pillaging by his two psychotic sons, Uday and Qusay.

Instead, he remarked about the shy, gentle way Saddam greeted him, eyes downcast in his desert bunker.

“There, in a corner of the room, glancing shyly downwards briefly as I strode towards him, was the most demonised man on the planet,” he wrote.

“He has a gentle handshake and is surprisingly diffident.”

Galloway remarks on the way nervous servants were sweating despite the air-conditioning.

But he fails to point out they would have been in perpetual fear for their lives.

Tony Blair will be delighted that there is now hard evidence that Galloway was complicit with Saddam’s regime.

Asked about the troublemaker’s call for Arabs to rise up against British troops, the PM told The Sun last week: “His comments were wrong and disgraceful.”

The Prime Minister insisted he would not be party to any move which made Galloway a martyr.

But he made it clear he expected the Labour Party’s national executive committee to take action to expel him.

With the evidence now available, surely it must be time to call in the police.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: galloway; georgegalloway
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1 posted on 04/21/2003 7:15:24 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
The secret bribe money flowed freely from Saddam to greedy traitors world wide.

Let's see now, who would be so loathesome?

Scott Ritter? Tom Daschle? Jim McDermott? David Bonior? Hillary Clinton? The Democrat National Committee?

Inquiring minds want to know.

2 posted on 04/21/2003 7:20:34 PM PDT by friendly
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To: Pokey78
This man, er turd needs to be flushed!
3 posted on 04/21/2003 7:23:02 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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To: Pokey78
It may be just imagination, but I fancy I notice a slight change of emphasis in the treatments accorded this story by, respectively, the Telegraph, the Independent, and here, the Sun. But I know this is big news by the fact that for the first time in the war it's kicked the scantily-clad ladies off the front page of the latter.
4 posted on 04/21/2003 7:23:05 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Pokey78
I'm sure there will be similar information about high level pay outs to officials in Paris and Berlin and I wouldn't be surprised to see some US officials and members of Congress emerge too.
5 posted on 04/21/2003 7:25:52 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Billthedrill
Now I understand WHY SadDEMON's soldiers burnt their govt. buildings! They were trying to destroy EVIDENCE of the EVIL traitors!!
6 posted on 04/21/2003 7:28:11 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: The Great RJ
Wow the brits are screwing around with one.

SMOKIN' !!!
7 posted on 04/21/2003 7:29:22 PM PDT by fooman (CNN exclusively aides the brutal Castro regime)
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To: Pokey78
Sounds ALOT Like Bill Clinton...
8 posted on 04/21/2003 7:29:25 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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To: The Great RJ
I'd bet that Galloway's £ were peanuts compared to what Chiraq, Le Worm got.
9 posted on 04/21/2003 7:29:40 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Billthedrill
No, the ladies live on page 3 as always !
10 posted on 04/21/2003 7:30:32 PM PDT by 1066AD
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11 posted on 04/21/2003 7:32:49 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Pokey78
So what exactly is a labor MP? Like a congressman or something?
12 posted on 04/21/2003 7:35:13 PM PDT by knak
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To: Pokey78
Sounds like he would fit nicely into our liberal left, i.e. the Democrats!
13 posted on 04/21/2003 7:36:33 PM PDT by Cabbages and Kings
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To: dighton
English law makes it easy to sue for liable, so this cover is particularly brave.
14 posted on 04/21/2003 7:38:31 PM PDT by js1138
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To: knak
yes like congress critters...
15 posted on 04/21/2003 7:39:11 PM PDT by fooman (CNN exclusively aides the brutal Castro regime)
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To: Pokey78
There are some politicians in the U.S. who will not be sleeping easily tonight.
16 posted on 04/21/2003 7:39:39 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: knak
Yes.
17 posted on 04/21/2003 7:40:10 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: knak
And labor is the Labor, or as they spell it Labour party.
18 posted on 04/21/2003 7:41:29 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
That's what I thought. Thanks. Too bad for him! Ha-ha!
19 posted on 04/21/2003 7:41:57 PM PDT by knak
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To: knak
MP= Member of Parliament, more or less equivalent to a member of the US House of Representatives.

Labour (UK spelling)= Labor Union Socialist. Prime Minister Blair is Labour but is genuinely a man struggling with deep ethical and personal religious issues (should he convert to his judge wife's Roman Catholicism?), and is highly atypical.

20 posted on 04/21/2003 7:42:33 PM PDT by friendly
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