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| Galloway tells North American Muslims Canada is complicit in Iraq war |
| 2005-09-18 |
| 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, pointing to comments by Gen. Rick Hillier, who said soldiers are fighting "detestable murderers and scumbags." Hillier has said the Canadian Forces has a job to do and that involves killing people. "That doesn't sound very much like neutrality to me," Galloway said to a receptive crowd. "You should raise the demand to end the Canadian occupation of Afghanistan." Galloway is known for his vocal criticism of the war in Iraq and was kicked out of the Labour Party in 2003 for urging British soldiers not to fight in the war. He launched his own anti-war party and this year won a seat in Parliament, unseating the Labour Party incumbent. In his speech Saturday, he repeated statements he made recently in New York about why he believes Sept. 11 happened. "These airplanes on 9-11 may have seemed to have come out of a clear blue sky but, in fact, these monstrous mosquitoes flew out of a swamp of bitterness and hatred and anger which exists in the Muslim world (because of) the injustice of western policy," Galloway said. "It is a crime, it is a sin, in any language, in any religion, to punish innocent people for the crimes of guilty people," he said. "But it is a crime and a sin whether it happens in Britain or New York or Fallujah or Baghdad or Palestine or Afghanistan or anywhere else the bombs and rockets are falling." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #10 The difference is the British hanged Lord Haw Haw. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-09-18 17:41 |
| #9 George Galloway - the Lord HawHaw of the 21st century. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-09-18 17:01 |
| #8 Galloway's just trying to drum up some jihadis to strike Canada. Then he can sit back and say "See! I told you so!" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-18 14:04 |
| #7 So Pak-Taliban rule is preferable to Galloway? |
| Posted by: john 2005-09-18 10:00 |
| #6 His opponent was a Jew (with a Black American father) in an electorate that was 50% muslim. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-09-18 03:25 |
| #5 His constituency beat him up prior to the elections. I note he's been spending a lot of time being away from his district...generally at least an ocean away, as a matter of fact. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-09-18 02:03 |
| #4 Because in the country he lives in this kind of person is looked up to and admired. His kind of politics are normal in the UK. Ask his pal Ken Livingstone mayor of the largest city in the UK. They are 2 peas in a pod and not atypical of UK politicians at all. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-09-18 01:51 |
| #3 Why is this guy still in office? |
| Posted by: Beau 2005-09-18 01:43 |
| #2 Not if I see him first. I'll cap his bodyguards and pound his pimp ass into the asphalt. Anyone who would work to protect his ass deserves to be triple tapped as they are not human beings. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-09-18 01:30 |
| #1 Re-watched his debate on C-SPAN. IFF I ever see him on the road, the Trailblazer accelerates ... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-09-18 01:09 |