Galloway reminds me of something (SAYS FORMER KGB AGENT)

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | April 27, 2003 | Oleg Gordievsky

[MadIvan]

Hmmmmmm.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[pbear8]

Mr Galloway should join Kim Philby, Guy Burgess & Don McLean. Dirt nap time.

[SauronOfMordor]

But if the documents are genuine, then it is a sign of how completely Iraqi intelligence misunderstood British society that they - allegedly - thought it was worth paying him several hundred thousand pounds a year.

It's actually very cheap, much less than the cost of an obsolete tank that got used for target practice by Coalition forces

It becomes really worthwhile if you can buy a bunch of them at this price. It doesn't take many to sway how legislation goes

[Steve Eisenberg]

Any Iraqi intelligence officer who stole all the money for himself would surely risk being fed head first into a shredding machine.

But only after his kiddies were shot in front of him. It is inconceivable that a Saddamite agent would take such risks.

By the way, Galloway is a bit more important than the author here thinks. True, he has no influence with Blair. But isn't Galloway the number one favorite MP of Britain's hard left? John Malkovich, in his who-I-want-to-shoot remark, didn't just pick Galloway at random.

[zerosix]

Any guesses as to the American version of "Galloway?"

[fight_truth_decay]

Galloway : I think that he (Saddam) is stable, rational, logical, knows that we stand on the brink of something terrible, would like to avoid it, and therefore is a man that we can I can do business with.''

[fight_truth_decay]

Mr Galloway has elicited 'unusual support' for his campaign in recent years - such as Scott Ritter? ;-)

[longshadow]

Any guesses as to the American version of "Galloway?"

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Q. Is it more likely that the FBI was dispatched last week to Baghdad to look for:

1. looted clay tablets and pottery from the Baghdad Museum, or

2. documentation on American politicians who were on the take like Galloway was, with the "Search for looted historical items" as their cover story, so that the guilty won't have a chance to flee to countries with which we do NOT have extradition treaties?

[Green Knight]

LOL! Holy crap! That was Galloway who he said he wanted to shoot?

[nickcarraway]

ping

[risk]

Any guesses as to the American version of "Galloway?"

Scott Ritter is already at the top of the list. But who else? We can start with a list of people who visited Baghdad in the last 12 years. Although I'm not familiar with their politics, we can start with the Democrat congressmen who were there just before the war started.

• David Bonior
• Jim McDermott
• Mike Thompson

Then we can walk through the list of celebrities who have visited Iraq, or who have spoken out against the war, ones like Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.

People who continued to speak out against the war after the fighting started are prime candidates.

[William McKinley]

McDermott.

[abclily]

Daschle? Pelosi? Who was louder?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sobering how easy it was (is!) to get enemy politicians/writers/columnists to work against their own country.

But then again, the international socialist movement (and ALLL of its members in the US/UK/EU/USSR) have NO country except international socialism.

[aristeides]

Who was the flamboyantly homosexual Labour MP, Tom something or other, who turned out to have been on the take from the KGB? He had long written a popular society column under the pen name something Hickey. (The column is mentioned in Hitchcock's remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much.)

[risk]

Daschle? Pelosi? Who was louder?

And how about Dianne Feinstein, who wanted us to "wait even longer" to invade Iraq, even as early as the beginning of this year? She's criticized by the left in California for supporting the war, but it was in the least enthusiastic terms possible.

Moreover, there's this condemnation of using tactical nukes in Asia. How's that for tipping our hand?

[pettifogger]

Any Iraqi intelligence officer who stole all the money for himself would surely risk being fed head first into a shredding machine.

Actually, it was feet first, so witnesses could hear their screams.

[Steve Eisenberg]

LOL! Holy crap! That was Galloway who he said he wanted to shoot?

Yep. And it was before any of these disclosures. The other fellow Malkovich mentioned was Robert Fisk, a far left reporter for the Guardian/Observer who once indicated approval after an Arab mob beat him up for being a westerner.

[Steve Eisenberg]

People who continued to speak out against the war after the fighting started are prime candidates.

Yea, but the equivalent would have to be a Democratic congressman who:

a. Is a household name

b. Said that the day the USSR died was the sadest of his life

Fortunately, we don't quite have any equivalent traitor.