By any standards, George Galloway knocked the socks off that Sky reporter.

He is good precisely because he is tough, tenacious and can give a bloody good beating to those people who are not used to being challenged. This is a good thing surely.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5211930.stm

Bert P: ‘Has anyone else begun to suspect Galloway is actually a muslim?’

There was an interesting interview with him in an Algerian newspaper a few months ago, don’t know if you caught it. They asked him why he often uses language which sounds possibly Islamic – ‘peace be upon him’ when talking about prophets, for instance – and asked whether he’d secretly converted. He neither confirmed nor denied it.

Kismet Hardy: ‘Yeah George. It’s probably more like a thousand.’

In fact, if you look into the history of Israel’s nuclear programme, most of the help came from France, with a bit of material sold to them by a renegade British civil servant along the way.

I sympathise with you, your colleagues and friends as does the vast majority of the UK population. Please let them know.

SO who are the thousands of Lebanese hostages?

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jimmy_carter/2006/08/jimmy_carter.html

ps. Heard the good news about News of the World? Galloway, Sheridan and now the Police!

Galloway has never been in a position of authority to effectively support anything – just words. In deeds, it was your precious American right that supported the killing of the Kurds. But I suggest you already know this and choose to ignore it

Well said.

But moving on, Iraq was not gassing Kurds in 2002 – they had enjoyed years of autonomy under the protection of the northern no-fly zone prior to the invasion.

The ACTUAL response to the gassing of the Kurds was, in 1984, restoration of diplomatic ties and, in 1988, continued support of the Saddam regime.

Galloway has never been in a position of authority to effectively support anything – just words. In deeds, it was your precious American right that supported the killing of the Kurds. But I suggest you already know this and choose to ignore it.

Too right! Gas em’ all, that’s what I say…

Levski, if you like making excuses for mass murder… if you support tin-pot dictators and anti-American stratocats and unelected theocrats… if you hate Israel and Jewish people everywhere… if you adore suicide bombers and despise freedom of speech… then I recommend this blog…

They call it Stalin’s Tomb

Enjoy!

And what is wrong with being ‘anti-Kurd’ anyway? For years people who know the region better than any of us warned us that Kurdish autonomy in any one of the four parts of ‘Kurdistan’ (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey) would only be used to carry out terrorist attacks on the remaining three. Well, now they have autonomy in Iraq, and they have indeed been using it as a base to carry out terrorist attacks on almost a daily basis for the past three years on the other three. Ironic that the US, in fighting the war on terror, is protecting these terrorists for no other reason than the north is stable and they don’t want to upset the apple cart. How Talibanesque of them. Should the west carve out a country, Kurdistan, where women will not be sent to school, where honour killings are an accepted part of the justice system etc? Why does, for example, the EU demand that Turkey give Kurds autonomy but then complain when Kurds use that autonomy to do just those things? Why does the BBC have headlines like ‘Turkey: 60% support honour killings’ when the survey was conducted entirely in the Kurdish region. Why not tell the world the truth about these ‘victims’? Given all of this, do I support Kurds in their struggle to create yet another oppressive ME state? No.