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George Galloway on Video

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I am always forgetting those wonderful videos of George Galloway and his expressions of admiration for Saddam Hussein.

A picture is certainly worth more than a thousand words, and these videos convey George’s true intent.

The Iraqi blogger Salam Pax shows gorgeous George in all his smarminess.

Jeremy Paxman election morning interview with a blustering Galloway.

The text versions are below:

Richard Palmer’s piece in the Times, 23rd Jan 1994.

In a speech recorded by the BBC monitoring service, he lavished praise on the Iraqi dictator, calling him “Sir” and addressing him as “Your Excellency, Mr President”. “I greet you, in the name of the many thousands of people in Britain who stood against the tide and opposed the war and aggression against Iraq and continued to oppose the war by economic means which is aimed to strangle the life out of the great people of Iraq,” he said.

“Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability. And I want you to know that we are with you until victory, until victory (sic), until Jerusalem.”

Confirmed by David Pallister in the Guardian on 17th Nov 2004, page 9 but expanded as:

Earlier, Mr Justice Eady, who is sitting without a jury, was shown a video clip of Mr Galloway’s meeting with Saddam in 1994. During a 10-minute speech Mr Galloway said: “Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability. And I want you to know that we are with you ‘hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al- Quds’ [until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem].”

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15/05/2005 at 22:46

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  1. [...] you Canada. It’s high time this sickening apologist for totalitarianism, who groveled before his idol Saddam Hussein, received the treatment he so richly deserves. Other countries take [...]


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