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In reply to the discussion: Remember George Galloway? Badly beaten in street assault in London [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)4. He was never worthy of admiration.
Name a horrible, despotic anti-US/UK regime, and you can find a quote from him praising them.
He's a professional troll.
See, e.g.,
http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/3050682
"We have to examine exactly who is threatening whom," he said, first reported by the Daily Caller. "Because one of the things I learnt on my two visits to North Korea, is that this is an extraordinarily cohesive political entity and society.
"They are courageously refusing to bow the knee to big power diktat and domination."
He added the caveat that he "does not agree with the North Korean system. I've been there, I've seen it up close and personal.
"But there have been achievements in North Korea, they have a satellite circling the earth. They have a nuclear power industry, even though they suspended it on false promises from President Clinton and US statesmen.
"They have a cohesive, pristine actually, innocent culture, a culture not penetrated by globalisation and Western mores.
He accused South Korea of being a "puppet state" of the US, adding: "I am much more afraid of the United States of America and so are most people in the world.
"North Korea has no intention to harm any of us. North Koreas problem is with South Korea.
"South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon.
"I believe that this is a United States trumped up little crisis, he said. They have pushed and pushed North Korea into a corner."
That said, politically motivated violence is abhorrent and this is severely disturbing.
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Remember George Galloway? Badly beaten in street assault in London [View all]
superpatriotman
Aug 2014
OP
I agree, but may I ask, why do you despise Galloway? Airc, he has been a consistent
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#36
The difference between terrorism and war is basically a legal distinction.
Threedifferentones
Aug 2014
#48
I'm afraid I completely disagree with that - I think it's a very clear and obvious distinction.
Donald Ian Rankin
Aug 2014
#49
Why nof support Assad? Syrian minorities were vastly better off before the Islamists--
eridani
Aug 2014
#21
Apologetics for a regime that's slaughtered hundreds of thousands in order to hold on to power
11cents
Aug 2014
#27
Your post is so full of 'wrong' I don't know where to start. He is not an 'enthusiastic supporter'
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#37
He's under the DU bus along with all the other people DU used to admire. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Aug 2014
#3
Pretty much. I'm not a Galloway fan and never was all that particularly interested in him. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Aug 2014
#14
The high point for me about him was when he took down the smug Senate Republicans on Iraq.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#20
Good one. Nationality can protect one. But he had trouble in the UK for a while.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#23
And what is incorrect about those statements? We WERE in Korea, in Vietnam, in Iraq, in
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#38
“All the papers seem to imply that you get executed in Iran for being gay. That’s not true.”
tritsofme
Aug 2014
#19
Yes, he has always had the courage to speak the truth. I remember what he did to
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#39
I still like him and see no reason to have changed my mind from the Bush years when he
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#40
He's definitely a leftie. No surprise why some right wing nut would attack him.
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#41
Which ones? I recall him slamming most of the Right Wing dictatorships, many of them
sabrina 1
Sep 2014
#55