One of those little political moments...

[mrph]

Labour MP George Galloway on George W. Bush -

"not a man we'd like to be at the wheel of a car travelling along a cliff edge as we sit in the back seat"

And, paraphrased a little (by the BBC, not me), he also "taunted his New Labour colleagues by asking them how they had ended up supporting George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in an argument - and opposing Al Gore, Nelson Mandela and Gerhard Schroeder". I don't usually agree with Galloway, but he does have a point...

From here (BBC Newslog) - praise newslog, for it is good.

Comments

[miruku.livejournal.com]

its obvious that the only things thats going to happen now to iraq, is that is will get the weaspon inspectors back in, and no action, but i just had to say; george galloway is a fucking wanker. of all the mps i hate, he has to be at the top of my list. as the rest of the world agrees that sadam is a bad man, but cant decide to do with him, gool ol' george is actually complimenting sadam on national iraq television (so, ok it was a few months ago, but it was fucking obvious by then that sadam had done fucking bad shit)

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I'd settle for a disarmed/inspected Iraq, providing that it opened the door to some improvement "on the ground". I don't think GWB and friends will, though - he's demanded regime change too loudly, while Cheney and Rumsfeld have said that inspections are "irrelevant" and useless. The UN will push inspections and then, unless we're really lucky, the two paths will diverge and the USA will find some minor cassus beli to end the inspection process and do something unilateral. That would be bad.

As for Galloway, I agree that he's a PR gift to Saddam (and has, arguably, been fooled several times) but he claims usually his solidarity is with the Iraqi people. He's visited Saddam, of course - and he's polite enough about them - but I've never heard of him actively praising Saddam's government...

End of the day, though, Glasgow voted for him. Twice. If they don't approve of what he's now doing, they can always vote him out in a few years. If they do... well, that's democracy.

[miruku.livejournal.com]

there was some stuff he said, which i saw on newsnight once, and he was saying very nice things to sadam =p ;)

[lougarry.livejournal.com]

Cheney and Rumsfeld are a little too bloodthirsty if you ask me.
I try to stay clear of this sort of thing when I can, but in all the news programs/clips I've seen Cheney in, he comes across as as 'gung-ho - and sod the bloody lot of them' - if you get my drift.
Even when Iraq consented originally to inspection, they seemed to have the 'tough shit, we're going anyways' attitude.