For misinformed individuals who mistakenly think Galloway was "pro-Saddam"

[LynnTheDem]

Read through the UK's official parliamentary Hansard transcripts from March 1990 onwards. You'll be shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya!

"In so far as Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator, does it not follow that his own people are by definition his victims, just as much as the hostages and the people of Kuwait?"

"There are those of us, such as myself, who have been Saddam Hussein's bitter opponents for as long as he has been in power in Baghdad. There are people, such as myself, who have marched, petitioned, written, railed and ranted at the dictatorship in Baghdad, and it is bitterly difficult for us to see the attitude of those Conservative Members who did not want to hear what we were saying and who wanted to say little and do even less about the bestialities that were committed by the dictatorship in Baghdad. For them, the dictatorship was merely a bloody good customer. That is the truth of the matter."

"The vast majority of human beings who made up that mountain of dead people never supported Saddam Hussein, never voted for Saddam Hussein, never voted for the war, and never in any sense offered any support to the Baathist regime in Baghdad, yet they were shot "like fish in a bowl". They were massacred "like rabbits in a sack". Other disgusting metaphors were plastered across our newspapers over the past few weeks."

"I shall speak up for some people who have not been much mentioned this evening: the poor Iraqi citizens, who never elected Saddam Hussein and who--however much we make them suffer, however often we bomb them and however long we sanction them--cannot remove the dictator who stands astride them."

"However, if this were really about the return of the inspectors and weapons of mass destruction, we could all go home...The first is the leadership qualities of George W. Bush. The Prime Minister tells us, as George Bush himself might put it, that we have been misunderestimating the President. The problem with that view is that the British people have seen and heard the President and they think they are estimating him just about right as not a man whom we would want to be at the wheel of the car as we drive along the edge of a cliff with ourselves sitting in the back seat.

Are we misunderestimating the President's friends? Are we misunderestimating Donald Rumsfeld whose picture appeared in The Guardian the other day shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in the middle of the Iran-Iraq war after he had just handed over the latest American satellite surveillance equipment so that the Iraqi regime could better target the Iranians who were our foes in that war?

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldhansrd.htm

WOW! What a SADDAM-LOVER! What a RAVING LUNATIC! I'm SHOCKED!

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And we laugh at how the rightwingnuts always fall for the bullshit, never noticing how many of us do likewise. :eyes: