Galloway accepts libel damages

[Spentastic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3549679.stm

This is interesting. The "new" Labour party fully got behind this smear campaign as Galloway posed some awkward questions.

[rfranklin]

1. Weren't those documents discovered" by Ruppert Murdoch?

Or I am confusing this with another of his scams?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Almost, Conrad Black.

[ze_dscherman]

2. Galloways recent view on the Iraq war

In a highly intersting series of interviews on the Iraq war by The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/voices/0,12811,880735,00.html), Galloway is not holding back with criticism:

You have to adopt a cost-benefit analysis. The one benefit is the removal of the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Baghdad, but the costs of that so massively outweigh it that the enterprise must be judged a failure and bankrupt.
The costs can be calibrated in a hundred different ways, starting with the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered (we don't know how many they were, because nobody was counting and, indeed, the US administration openly boasts that it can't be expected to count the number of Iraqis it killed); the number of maimed and wounded; the millions whose lives have been wrecked, who, even now, a year after the war, have no regular supplies of electricity or water and still lack basic necessities. And the vast majority are unemployed.

Then we begin to tally up secondary costs like the effective break-up of Iraq from what was effectively one country into a series of confessionary cantonments; the balkanisation of Iraq in a way that will be very difficult to put back together again; and the uncorking of the bottle from which the genie of Islamic fundamentalism has sprung. (All of this entirely predictable and entirely predicted by me and many others.)

SNIP

The proliferation of terrorism in Iraq and the world must also be counted as one of the costs of this enterprise. It's abundantly clear now that there was no al-Qaida in Iraq before the war. It's equally clear that there are now many al-Qaida operatives and groups whose suicide bombings have taken such a toll. The destabilising effects on neighbouring countries, principally Saudi Arabia, is another cost. We go on to the damage done to Britain's relations with its partners in the EU, the damage done in the UN. Our name is mud around the world, our citizens endangered, our interests threatened. All of these are on the debit side, and I'm in no doubt whatsoever that it was on balance a very foolish, very dangerous thing to do.

SNIP


Read all here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/voices/story/0,12820,1162935,00.html

[Aidoneus]

3. CSM settled..

Now he just needs to hammer at the Telegraph for spreading the same lie.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Well done George. I put my faith in you. Good to see it wasn't misplaced.

[KoKo]

6. Mr. Galloway....and his new "anti-war party, Respect!" Great News!

(This is great news that justice prevailed here. We have so few examples lately) I love this quote from the article:


"Outside the court, Mr Galloway - who is standing in the European elections in London under the banner of his new anti-war party Respect"