After controversial UK MP George Galloway extended his condolences to the innocents who have lost their lives and heartfelt sympathy to all those who have been injured by the bombs in London, he gave British Parliament his usual double barrelled blast.
He stated that the attacks were despicable but entirely predictable, and added bluntly that Londoners had paid the price for Britain sending soldiers into Iraq and Afghanistan and warned there was more to come. He said:
“The loss of innocent lives, whether in this country or Iraq, is precisely the result of a world that has become a less safe and peaceful place in recent years.”
"We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain"
"Let there be no equivocation: The primary responsibility for the bloodshed this morning lies with those who carried out the acts. But it would be utterly crass to separate these acts from the political backdrop against which they took place.”
"They did not come out of a clear blue sky, any more than those monstrous mosquitoes that struck the twin towers and other buildings in the United States on 11 September 2001.”
Right wing commentators on both sides of the Atlantic are furious with his blunt but truthful comments. The Sun has called him Britain’s No 1 traitor.
George Galloway has been a one-man juggernaut that steamrolled over a Republican Party dominated US Senate committee who thought they could intimidate or cowed him. Instead he gave them a taste of their own medicine. Read my previous post Mother of All Smokescreens! to see Galloway’s ‘shock & awe’ slaughter of the US Senators.
Because Galloway has been consistently anti-war he had all sorts of fabrications hurled at him, eg. of alleged but totally unproven profiting from his contacts with Saddam Hussein. The US Senate committee hearing thought they could corner him into admission, but he very quickly disabused them of any thoughts of victory. He left them in a smoking heap a la Battle of the Little Big Horn.
His parliamentary address could easily apply to PM John Howard of Australia. The Australian Opposition and anti-war movement had warned Howard that taking Australia into the war would increase the terrorist threat against Australia. Howard rejected their advice.
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