Richard Ingrams (London Observer): George and the Dragon

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From the London Observer (Sunday supplement of the Guardian Unlimited)
Dated Sunday May 22

George and the Dragon
By Richard Ingrams

The general satisfaction (to Galloway's performance before Senator Coleman's sub-committee) perhaps had less to do with whether or not people supported the invasion of Iraq and more simply to do with seeing pompous Americans made to look foolish. Because when it comes to pomposity there is nothing to beat a pompous American, and if anything their journalists are even more pompous than their politicians.

Thus it was noted that Galloway's telling remark that, contrary to what was alleged, he had met Saddam Hussein no more often than Donald Rumsfeld (who had actually sold him weapons), this was not reported the following day in two of America's most prestigious papers, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Why ever not? The only possible explanation would be that they considered it disrespectful towards a distinguished American statesman.

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Actually, there is nothing more pompous than a pompous neoconservative.