British MP George Galloway on Al-Jazeera:

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Calls for Bush, Blair, Koizumi, and Berlusconi to Stand Trial

"I am speaking for tens of millions, and maybe more, around the world, who know the truth about Iraq. Who know that the real criminals are in Washington. Not in the United Nations. The real criminals are in the White House, not in the Elysee Palace. The real criminals are in the Congress, not in the anti-war movement. So I have no respect for this...

"This is one of the reasons why we need Al-Jazeera in English, so that we can reach the people who, if you can reach them, you can win their hearts. They are not bad people. The American people are not bad or evil people. But they are ruled by bad people.

"Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known. It has killed far more people than Adolph Hitler. It has killed far more people than George Bush. The economic system which these people support, which leaves most of the people in the world hungry, and without clean water to drink. So we're going to put them on trial, the leaders, when they come. They think they're coming for a holiday in a beautiful country called Scotland; in fact, they're coming to their trial.

"I can't mention, I'm sorry to say, any Arab leader... Where is the Nasser? Where is the Arab leader who will stand up and tell these people the truth? This is what we are waiting for.

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[Carolab]

1. Wow. That man can really deliver the truth.

Fantastic.

[unhappycamper]

2. Earth to George Galloway: Smmmmmmmmmmmooooookin!

"And by the way, those Arab regimes which helped them to do it will burn in the same hell-fires."

[Stockholm]

3. I recognize his rhetoric from somewhere...

"One should call things by their right names. And what is happening today in Vietnam, is a form of torture. There cannot be any military motives for bombings on this scale. Military spokesmen in Saigon has said that there is no reloading on behalf of the North Vietnamese. It cannot possibly be due to any stubborness on behalf of the Vietnamese by the negotiation table. All the commentators agree, that the greatest resistance to the October agreement in Paris, is coming from the president himself.

What is done now is tormenting people, tormenting a nation in order to humiliate it. Force it to submission through power language. That is why the bombings are an atrocity.

Of those, there are many examples in modern history. And they ususally have a name: Guernica. Oradour. Babij Jar. Katyn. Lidice. Sharpeville. Treblinka. There violence has triumphed. But the verdict of future generations has been harsh over those carrying responsiblity. Now a new name is added to the row: Hanoi, Christmas of 1972."

Olof Palme, Christmas of 1972