Standing ovation for Galloway

[cal04]

Respect MP George Galloway received a rapturous welcome at a packed rally a day after a ferocious showdown with US senators. Hundreds turned up at a meeting in London to celebrate his general election victory over Labour's Oona King. He was hailed as the "man of the moment" after returning from Washington today.

While there he was quizzed by a Senate sub committee over allegations he profited from Iraq's oil-for-food scandal. After his interrogation he was convinced he had successfully rubbished the claims that he received vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein's regime. He also used his impassioned performance to denounce the Iraq war and attack the United States government as "the villains of the piece".

Arriving tonight at Friends Meeting House he received a three-minute standing ovation from the full house. The crowd raised their hands to applaud him, cheered loudly and chanted "Respect" as he made his way to the platform, where he stood to receive their acclaim.

Linda Smith, chairing the meeting, said; "I think you will agree that tonight we have got a fantastic platform of speakers, including the man of the moment, George Galloway." The first to address the rally was Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS Union, who saluted Mr Galloway's "spectacular victory" in the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency.

http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/uk/today/tm_objectid=15532541%26method=full%26siteid=50141%26headline=standing-ovation-for-galloway-name_page.html

[clydefrand]

1. Wish I had been there to applaud him as well.

Wonder how we can send him a thank you note.

[dissent1977]

5. Here is his e-mail address

[e-mail]

I already wrote to express my thanks.

[cyberpj]

10. Thanks so much for that info - I'm going to post it to GDP with my letter

[Tigress DEM]

27. Letter sent! Bravo for posting that link!

[meppie-meppie not]

48. ditto! :-) n/t

[donheld]

38. I sent my thank you's

thanks for the e-mail addy. George is my hero.

[aion]

40. My email to Galloway

Mr. Galloway,

Your recent senate appearance was a breath of fresh air here in the
USA. You were, if anything, too polite to these people. It wasn't
so much that you said anything that we didn't know (if we were paying
attention), but the fact that you fired it off in such rapid
succession. Please don't stop the offensive. Our country has been
hijacked by these religious zealots, and you sounded like a Thomas
Paine in your criticism. You were right on with the 'praeposterous'
claim.

Unfortunately, most Americans will think this simply is another word
for 'absurd.' Their religious beliefs have the cart before the horse
all the time, so perhaps you should emphasize the meaning of the word.
These people decide first what they want to believe, and then they
look for evidence which will support that claim. They are about as
praeposterous as it gets. As with the missing WMDs in Iraq, these
people are in denial. As you might remember Rumsfeld's claim "Absense
of evidence is not evidence of absense". This is what you're up
against. These people don't understand the problems involved in
proving a negative -- or perhaps they do...as the sophists did.

These people, and I hessitate to call them that, are beyond shameful.
You most definitely have your work cut out for you, and with the
coverage you've received, I can't imagine that they're not going to
retalliate. You did brilliantly, Mr. Galloway. You have truth on
your side, and truth is the only thing which can stop them now.

[ronnykmarshall]

49. My e-mail to him

There are so many Americans that are hungry to hear the truth. You gave that to us.

I fear that my country is slipping further into a dark hole and I can't see how we are going to recover.

Can we just forget that whole 1776 thing and come home?

Thank you again,

Ronny K Marshall
West Hollywood, CA

[WhiteTara]

thanks! I just emailed him.

Maybe

[WhiteTara]

50. thanks! I just emailed him.

Maybe

[corbett]

53. Just Fired Off An Email

Thanks very much for posting his addy! I never would have thought of sending him a message if you hadn't provided the address.

= = = = = = = = = =

A Spike In My Anglophilia

I could go on and on about how your recent appearance at the United States Capitol brought and all too rare injection of truth into the lingering debate over our government's illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq and murder of innocent Iraqis. Let me err on the side of brevity instead by saying: thank you on behalf of all Yankees who respect the truth and rule of law above all else.

Sincerely,

= = = = = = = = = =

http://www.moveonpac.org/savetherepublic

[vince3]

54. Thanks for the link

[SF Bay Area Dem]

11. I am with you... I think DU shoudl send a thank signed by all of us ---

Can you imagine how dramatic a card with our names and city and a short comment would be?

[Mark Williams]

13. Count me in (n/t)

[ngGale]

34. A thank you note is a great idea....

this is a true patriot of a man. He can give as good as he can get.

:toast:

[ElectroPrincess]

2. Here here! ... A true "Profile in Courage" = MP George Galloway

:applause:

[demo dutch]

3. I knew this would make him a hero with the anti-war movement

everywhere! Glad to hear he's appreciated even more so at home in the UK

[HeeBGBz]

4. They should be proud of him

What a great countryman. Wish someone in this country would be so straightforward.

[librechik]

6. Respect!

I like that

[MADem]

23. Shades of Ali G!!!! n/t

[silverweb]

36. I like it, too.

It's a funny thing, too, because I signed the email I sent him yesterday, "With thanks and respect," which is not my normal signoff. It just seemed appropriate for him.

Nice to know lots of other people feel the same way.

:)

[IronLionZion]

43. That's his new party

since they threw him out of the labour party. Anti-war makes strange bedfellows because Galloway hates Trotskyites and the RESPECT party is mostly Trotskyite Socialists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESPECT_The_Unity_Coalition

[0007]

7. I would hope a University here in the U.S. will have him come

and be the guest speaker. In fact I would hope that Galloway would make a lecture tour for PEACE here in the U.S. just to piss junior off all the more.

[Cha]

8. That's what Galloway said the "static" in

his ear said would happen on charlierose last night.

That he did good standing up to the US Senators!

[BeFree]

9. Saw Rose last night

Could you believe what a big dick Charlie was? Gawd he was terrible, interrupting Galloway and trying to put words in his mouth. But Galloway wiped the floor with Charlie and did a great job explaining how screwed up Coleman and the US are.

Galloway articulated the peace movement's background and correctness as well as anyone ever could. Then Charlie thanked him for his "Differing Voice"... how 'bout "Perfectly Correct Voice", Mr. Stinky Rose? Everyone else has been wrong, and Galloway was Right!

Used to think Rose had a bit of fairness left in him, guess I was wrong.

[Cha]

14. I wasn't surpried by rose...

I've seen him that way too many times.

But, it felt so grrreat to have someone the caliber of George Galloway ..eloquently, articulately, and passionately standing up to rose and his propoganda pushing rhetoric.

[Merlin]

17. Charlie's got his finger in the wind.

He can smell the foul breeze at CPB.

[Cha]

20. charlierose looked last night like he

smelled his own shit!

[Merlin]

25. Fabulous Metaphor!

Thanks for that brilliant and relevant depiction of a man who suddenly finds out he ain't all perfect!

[Tigress DEM]

28. Smells more like ...

the muffled voice of someone with his head too far up *ush's tush to know where to find the truth even when it is kicking his a**.


:rofl:

[0007]

56. I quit watching Rose some time ago. He tries to control every

interview and hardly ever gives way.....I once knew an alcholic that was just like Rose.

[Smarmie Doofus]

18. Rose is AWFUL. His show is *painfully* dull.

His questions are twice as long as the answers they elicit ( truly the kiss of death for an interviewer).

He's been presenting the flip side of the same coin on Iraq for so long that he seemed not to know what to make of Galloway... someone who actually had a DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW (!!!)

[MADem]

24. Painfully, excruciatingly, and ALWAYS DULL

You could give this guy a triple murder, a sex cult, a scandal of momentous proportions, and he would make it seem like a lecture from the WORST junior high school teacher on the planet.

He sucks. I don't care about his politics, he is simply dull as dirty dishwater!

[Enraged_Ape]

29. Charlie Rose could put an insomniac meth addict to sleep

The combination of his boring questions, his monotonous delivery, his half-closed eyelids, the lateness of the hour that his show is usually broadcast (11 p.m. on our local PBS station) all add up to a recipe for coma.

[Bozita]

19. Rose was looking for a damned headline instead of a good interview

His "establishment" was showing.

Charlie Rose, just another pseudo-intellectual ... and asshole.

[cal04]

12. Galloway Turns Table on US Senators: Press

The press, both in Britain and the United States, highlighted Wednesday, May 18, the spirited defense by British anti-war lawmaker George Galloway, to US Senate accusations on receiving oil kickbacks from the former Iraqi regime, turning the table on his US accusers.“Galloway not only defended himself robustly but also threw the charges back in the face of the American administration,” Britain’s mass-circulation Daily Mirror said.During a voluntary hearing session Tuesday, Galloway vehemently denied US claims that he received Iraqi oil money from ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The British daily, which vehemently opposed the US-led war on Iraq, added that what stung the US Senate was “when Galloway pointed out that their own Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had twice met Saddam to sell him arms”.
The flamboyant British lawmaker said, during the hearing session, that he had met the former Iraqi president on two occasions - the same number of times as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

“The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war,” he said.

“Street Fighter”

Top-selling The Guardian said the 50-year-old Scotsman’s “counter-attacks” against the US Senate looked like as if he (Galloway) was “in street fighting form”. “He (Galloway) scored several points, especially with his jibe at Rumsfeld,” the British daily said.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-05/18/article02.shtml

[heidiho]

15. It is a pity that a foreigner has to tell the American people

that this war is a "pack of lies" because no one has the balls to do it here.

Bravo, Mr. Galloway, I loved your performance.

[Tigress DEM]

31. Americans HAVE been telling the truth, they just get punished for it.

Paul O'Neill said this all in January 04 and was laughed at and called a conspiracy theorist.

Whistle blowers like Sibel Edmonds get fired

Respected, Level-Headed Republicans not welcome back after telling the Chimperor he's stark raving naked.... Colin Powell

Peaceful demonstrators get thrown in jail on trumped up charges until the videos proving their innocence show up in court.



(Oneil's )
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush

From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," O'Neill told CBS, according to excerpts released Saturday by the network. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap."

O'Neill, who served nearly two years in Bush's Cabinet, was asked to resign by the White House in December 2002 over differences he had with the president's tax cuts. O'Neill was the main source for "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind.

.....

"There are memos," Suskind told the network. "One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'"

Suskind cited a Pentagon document titled "Foreign Suitors For Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," which, he said, outlines areas of oil exploration. "It talks about contractors around the world from ... 30, 40 countries and which ones have what intentions on oil in Iraq."








(latest on Siebel BTW)
http://www.antiwar.com/edmonds/?articleid=5233
<clip>
FBI Whistleblower Edmonds Files New Lawsuit

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, today filed the most detailed lawsuit to date outlining her allegations. The complaint, filed under the Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA), reveals for the first time details surrounding Ms. Edmonds' interactions with a former FBI colleague who raised suspicions by her perceived efforts to recruit the Edmonds into at least two Turkish organizations. Also disclosed are the names of those within the FBI who went out of their way to undercut Ms. Edmonds' concerns.

[Merlin]

16. FINALLY ! Jesus Galloway is great!

I've been in the hospital for 5 days with only a dial-up, unable to watch or listen but only read about this great event.

Just now saw the first video clip.

It was AWESOME!

God, do we need that kind of truth and clarity!

Can we recruit the man for America?

[silverweb]

35. I hope you're all well now...

Welcome back to the real world from the hospital!

:hi:

[Merlin]

41. Thanks, silverweb.

Love your handle. Appreciate your well wishes.
:hi:

[PartyPooper]

21. This man has made me even more so very proud of my Scottish heritage.

What a hero. Mr. Galloway, I salute you!

:D

:hi:

:hug:

[Virginian]

26. Me too.

:hi:

[Supersedeas]

52. Mr. Galloway makes Scottish Americans proud!!! Count me in too!!!

[princehal]

22. I would like it

if Galloway was a fellow Quaker. He did indeed speak truth to power. I have a web domain I bought called powertotruth.com I think I know what to use it for now.

It's been a black blank page for months. I have to find something to do with it.

[blue northern]

30. Count me in on the ovation for George Galloway

woot. He was fantastic.
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[nwliberalkiwi]

32. Sent Letter to Mr. Galloway MP

We sent our letter of support to Mr. Galloway MP.

[Skypilot 18]

33. Galloway rules !

The man has courage and the smarts to back up everything he says. Too bad our political leaders don't have the same bravado.

[eridani]

37. Do the Brits ever play Aretha Franklin at occasions like this?

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me! :woohoo:

[truthisfreedom]

39. it's about time that someone put that smarmy fraud norm coleman in his

place. bushco was in much too big a rush to bring coleman to prominence and they really misjudged this situation. now they'll have to make a great big fake show to make up for it, and we'll all laugh as it doesn't work.

[ecoalex]

42. Is Galloway

a Quaker? From his rabid anti war rhetoric, and statements I would say so.

Imagine a country led by the Society of Friends?

No wars, and sociatal, enviornmental justice.

[demo dutch]

47. I believe so, it's not in his bio (see link) Married to a Palestinian

-born wife and he's considered a socialist. He's had a rather colorful public life. Got kicked out of the Labour Party in 2003 because of his opposition to the war and started his own party "Respect Coalition", the "Stop The War movement". He announced it's launch in the "Quaker’s Friends House" in London. They have a website.

Here's the link to his bio
http://www.answers.com/topic/george-galloway

He gets written up frequently in the Friend, a Quaker newspaper.
He's got a voting record in the UK, the way you would expect. For example he voted against control orders for terrorist suspects, against ID cards, for allowing unmarried and gay couples to adopt children, for a full ban on hunting with dogs.

[muriel_volestrangler]

51. No, he's Roman Catholic

as that bio you linked to says.

[demo dutch]

57. Overlooked that, maybe he has Quaker aspirations, he gets covered by their

media all the time! Catholic does makes sense because he's from Scotland.

[dandrhesse]

44. Anyone know an email link that we could send him our kudos

on job well done with style, class and passion?

[demo dutch]

45. Check post # 5

[dandrhesse]

46. Thanks very much I just sent him off an email of thanks.

[oasis]

55. He's tops in my book.

:applause: