Thursday, August 04, 2005
George Galloway: No Longer Amusing
George Galloway praises the terrorists who are doing their best to ensure that Iraq never becomes a nation with a representative government, never respects human life and freedom outside of the dictates of the most strict and punishing readings of Islamic law, and who have targeted Iraqi women, children, policemen, and politicians with no qualms about the blood shed.
“These poor Iraqis - ragged people, with their sandals, with their Kalashnikovs, with the lightest and most basic of weapons - are writing the names of their cities and towns in the stars, with 145 military operations every day, which has made the country ungovernable.
“We don’t know who they are, we don’t know their names, we never saw their faces, they don’t put up photographs of their martyrs, we don’t know the names of their leaders.”
Galloway is a treacherous, vile, and small man who is praising the murderers of coalition soldiers, regular Iraqi citizens, journalists, and diplomats from around the Middle East. Worse, he’s acting as a cheerleader for the people who would deny Iraqi’s the opportunity to govern themselves--and he’s doing it under the guise of rooting for the supposed liberators.
He may not have said anything legally actionable, but he has proven that he has no place amongst reasonable, intelligent people. There was a moment where I found him amusing in that Michael Moore kind of way--over the top, a buffoon, but essentially harmless. No more.
Now I realize how hateful he truly is.
Sickening little man.

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While I agree with you overall, resorting to name calling doesn’t do justice to your argument. One person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter and Galloway’s unfortunate characterization probably made sense in the context of his views. I won’t defend him, but you would do better to assail his points rather than his character. A point I suspect you could care less about.
What if his views represented a small minority of people who oppose the war in Iraq? Does this make them complicit in treason? Should there be only one view of the situation?
Hey Z, I didn’t know Reuters read your blog. I’m so jealous!