| rdfs:comment | - Some suspect that he's really neither left wing nor right wing but just in politics for himself. Personally, I think George Galloway is an appalling opportunist, who chose Bethnal Green and Bow as a seat in order to exploit the racial tensions there; someone who slips this way and that, someone who avoids serious debate by resorting to facile mud-slinging and ridiculous hyperbole. [1] I would not call him an idiot as he is a political opportunist and carpet bagger. [2] Unlike most politicians he is not afraid to speak his mind assuming he believes what he says.
- George Galloway is a British Member of Parliament. He was accused by various personages and governments of committing crimes related to the UN 'oil for food' program in Iraq during the 1990 sanctions years. Several of these accusations held their evidence as being documents from Iraq that turned out to be forged. Some of those forgeries might be related to Habbush. Alot of this seesm to have happened in mid-2003. We need some help figuring this out. Please edit. He made many trips to Baghdad He is a hard core 'leftist' in ideology
- In the late 1970s, impressed by the way it had made itself unpopular, Galloway joined the Labour Party. He subsequently became MP for Glasgow Kelvin and Baghdad West. He created a "Galloway Fund" and arranged for thousands of pounds of taxpayers money to be diverted into it to pay for the champagne, caviar and cigars that he "needed" to get through his meetings with constituents. Galloway defended this calling it "my kind of socialism".
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| abstract | - Some suspect that he's really neither left wing nor right wing but just in politics for himself. Personally, I think George Galloway is an appalling opportunist, who chose Bethnal Green and Bow as a seat in order to exploit the racial tensions there; someone who slips this way and that, someone who avoids serious debate by resorting to facile mud-slinging and ridiculous hyperbole. [1] I would not call him an idiot as he is a political opportunist and carpet bagger. [2] Unlike most politicians he is not afraid to speak his mind assuming he believes what he says.
- In the late 1970s, impressed by the way it had made itself unpopular, Galloway joined the Labour Party. He subsequently became MP for Glasgow Kelvin and Baghdad West. He created a "Galloway Fund" and arranged for thousands of pounds of taxpayers money to be diverted into it to pay for the champagne, caviar and cigars that he "needed" to get through his meetings with constituents. Galloway defended this calling it "my kind of socialism". In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Labour took measures to improve its standing with voters following much more than forty days in the political wilderness. Brother Galloway objected to these changes saying "I don't want to be part of a party that looks after the interests of the common man, I want to be part of a party that looks after me and myself whilst I pretend to look after the interests of the common man. It is the Glasgow Labour way." By chance, murderous despot Saddam Hussein heard about Galloway and was touched by a man after his own heart. Hussein invited Galloway to stand as the member for Baghdad central, with an electorate of one, after Saddam had the previous representative murdered. Galloway still accepted. However reporters questioned Galloway's ability to manage three different parliamentary seats. Galloway countered this claim "there is no conflict of interest" "as all my wages and pecks are paid into the same off-shore bank account". In 1994, he was taken on a tour of the city and was impressed with how Saddam mixed bombastic populist rhetoric with bullying and harsh treatment of workers and trade unionists. The two men struck-up a friendship which endured until Saddam's execution for crimes against humanity in 2006. Just before, in 2006, after an interview that can only be described as crackling with sexual tension, George regretted Saddy's forthcoming execution, because he was now out of the oil business.
- George Galloway is a British Member of Parliament. He was accused by various personages and governments of committing crimes related to the UN 'oil for food' program in Iraq during the 1990 sanctions years. Several of these accusations held their evidence as being documents from Iraq that turned out to be forged. Some of those forgeries might be related to Habbush. Alot of this seesm to have happened in mid-2003. We need some help figuring this out. Please edit. He sued a newspaper that published stories about some documents (which might not be forgeries).... almost a 'reverse ron suskind' thing.... but Galloway sued them for defamaion, which is a lot easier to do in the UK, because they have no First Amendment and not as strong a legal tradition of free speech protection.... There are also a lot of other rather unusual features of Mr Galloways life, which are possibly not so relevant to the question of the Habbush letter... but.. He made many trips to Baghdad He is a hard core 'leftist' in ideology Qeustion: What effect did Galloway's situation have on the thinking of the pro-war people? The American? The British? The Italian? Did they even know about it? The forgery situation with Christian Science Monitor came out as a story in mid-2003, if someone was gonna make a forgery for Dec 2003, the Habbush Letter, wouldn't they think people would analyze it death and figure out it was fake?
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