Anyone else think George Galloway is a pain in the -ss

[#juan]

I kind of liked Galloway

when he stood up and told off the American senate but I think his "fame" has gone to his head.

http://tinyurl.com/dpll6

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Anyone else think Geo

Nah, he's just doing what he's always done. It just makes the papers now.

 

[#juan]

Well, when you consider that nobody in North America had even heard of this guy before his speech in the senate, his sudden celebrity was a bit of a surprise but to me his "colourful rhetoric" is getting a bit thin.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Anyone else think Geo

I'd heard of him. I read the Guardian a lot though. Like I said, he's just doing what he's always done. That's why the Senate tried to shut him down in the first place.

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

Galloway's always been something of a chest-beating bombast, that's just his style - he's known in the UK as "Gorgeous George", as he fancies himself a bit. The reason he's taken on superstar status in the US is that he's given the usually soporific Americans their first taste of political debate, Dundee-style.

 

[#juan]

I objected to this statement by Galloway:

"Don't think I'm coming to praise the Canadian position," he warned last night, referring to Ottawa's refusal to send troops to Iraq.

Mr. Galloway said that deploying soldiers to Afghanistan and ships to the Persian Gulf, while all the while pretending to be a bystander to the Iraq war, is unprincipled and transparent.

"It's a hypocritical stand and it's one that, I can assure you, is not fooling very many people in the Middle East," he said.

Regardless of what our government has done, or what actions have been taken because of expedience, the Canadian people have always been solidly against the war in Iraq. The Canadian people are not "unprincipled and transparent." because this blowhard says they are.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Anyone else think Geo

When he talks about the Canadian position, he's talking about our government though. It's like when I say, "Gosh those Americans are pig-feckers," I don't mean all Americans, I mean the US government.

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

I can understand why you may not like Galloway's approach #juan - it makes him as many enemies as it does friends, and he seems to enjoy the attention, but I think you've misrepresented his views, there. The way it reads to me, he's simply referring to the Canadian government's position, not that of the Canadian people. In fact, the only time he mentioned "the Canadian people", was to point out that the majority of them oppose the war.

 

[Scape]

Book:Mr Galloway goes to Washington

Galloway/Hitchens Debate now posted(right hand side of page)

A Play by Play from The Guardian

A most excellent debate of the pro and the cons of this debacle. I highly recommend it!

 

[#juan]

I can understand why you may not like Galloway's approach #juan - it makes him as many enemies as it does friends, and he seems to enjoy the attention, but I think you've misrepresented his views, there.

Hard Luck, I'm not trying to be difficult here but I firmly believe that we have paid for our reticence (not sending troops to Iraq)in trade difficulties with the U,S.. I think our lumber and beef problems would have blown away quickly if we had sent troops to Iraq. George Galloway has misrepresented our position in that he has not considered all the facts. Now he's stirring up the Islamic pot with his loose cannon rhetoric.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Anyone else think Geo

Should we have joined in an illegal and immoral war just to better our chances of settling trade disputes, Juan?

The softwood lumber dispute pre-dates the Iraq war and even Bush. The BSE border closure is standard procedure around the world. Both are driven by the protectionism of powerful lobby groups.

As Tony Blair has discovered, joining the Americans in Iraq buys no favours.

Galloway also isn't wrong. We haven't gone to Iraq, but we have aided the US in many ways.

 

[#juan]

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Should we have joined in an illegal and immoral war just to better our chances of settling trade disputes, Juan

Of course not. We already had other programs in place like the exchange program that saw our soldiers serving with the U.S. military.(one of whom was killed) We were already patrolling the gulf in the so-called "war on terror" that we did join. I suppose we could have pulled out of everything(I would have agreed with that) but as I said, it was probably expedient to leave people in place.

 

[#juan]

And this guy goes on and on.

http://tinyurl.com/98dh7

Canada complicit in Iraq war, British MP says

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - Despite its refusal to fight in Iraq, Canada is complicit in the U.S. war on terrorism and should withdraw from Afghanistan, an outspoken left-wing British MP said Saturday.

"I'm amazed that so many people in Canada believe they're not a part of this crime," George Galloway said at the sixth annual conference of the Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim Association of Canada.

"Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf)," Galloway said.

"Your ships in the Gulf and your soldiers in Afghanistan are doing the dirty work of George W. Bush and Tony Blair. They are freeing American ships and soldiers to go to Fallujah and massacre the people of Iraq."

Galloway also called Canada's reputation as peacekeepers a lie."

As far as I'm concerned, Galloway is an idiot who can't see past his big red nose. I won't go into the many building and reconstruction projects Canadian soldiers have been involved in, or that Afghanis in all areas ask to have Canadian soldiers in their area.