Listen to George Galloway and Friends

[hiley]

Listen to George Galloway and Friends
Rock the House to Close Historic Day in Washington, D.C.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/george_galloway_dc_92405.html


"We have to raise our demands. We don't want Bush out of the Whitehouse, we want Bush in prison with Blair and all the other war criminals who have brought us to this pass." - George Galloway

http://www.traprockpeace.org/george_galloway_dc_92405.html

Tomgram: Voices from the Frontlines of Protest, Washington D.C.



"No Iraqis Left Me on a Roof to Die"
Katrina and Cindy Blow into Town
By Tom Engelhardt
Photos by Tam Turse

George was out of town, of course, in the "battle cab" at the U.S. Northern Command's headquarters in Colorado Springs, checking out the latest in homeland-security technology and picking up photo ops; while White House aides, as the Washington Post wrote that morning, were attempting "to reestablish Bush's swagger." The Democrats had largely fled town as well, leaving hardly a trace behind. Another hurricane was blasting into Texas and the media was preoccupied, but nothing, it seemed, mattered. Americans turned out in poll-like numbers for the Saturday antiwar demonstration in Washington and I was among them. So many of us were there, in fact, that my wife (with friends at the back of the march) spent over two hours as it officially "began," moving next to nowhere at all

This was, you might say, the "connection demonstration."
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http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=24319

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. galooway is an opportunistic scumbag

read palast's piece

[0007]

2. Palast has got it wrong. I don't see Greg standing up to the necons

and shouting them down over their fucking lies.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. oddly enough

he sort of does that for a living

hell, palast practically unearthed the katherine harris shenanigans single-handedly

[wtmusic]

7. Yeah, and Galloway makes policy for a living

instead of writing about it

[0007]

9. What odd about exposing the truth about war criminals and

money lords, 'eh?

I like Palast. But I don't hear him speaking out loudly and clearly as Mr. George Galloway.

Katherine Harris got elected to congress, so much for bringing that witch down, as she's still flying high in the sky.

[hiley]

3. I have read Greg Palast piece

and I have read George Galloway's answer.
Thank you very much.
Others may want to hear Galloway.

ZNet | Activism
Reply to Greg Palast
by George Galloway; September 20, 2005

Until a couple of days ago I hadn't heard of Greg Palast in years, the man who claims to have been pursuing me with questions for two months. He has never phoned, written, emailed or made any other contact with me, which is curiously reminiscent of the behavior of the US Senate committee. Having now forced myself to look at his pernicious writing, it seems like the deranged ramblings you might expect to find pushed out from under the door of a locked ward. He claims to be a journalist. He clearly doesn't get much work.
Palast conflates meetings, truths and half-truths, statements taken out of context to produce a toxic smear which would be actionable in the country he claims to work in, my country. How many times do I have to respond to the ravings of guttersnipes? I met Saddam twice, the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld. The difference is that I wasn't trying to sell him weapons and guidance systems. The first, and infamous time, my words were taken out of context. The second, where Saddam revealed his favorite confectionery, I was trying to persuade him to let the weapons' inspectors back in. A vain mission, of course, as the US and UK had already decided to illegally go to war whatever he did.

The Mariam Appeal, which Palast drags in to allege I benefited financially from its work, was not a charity. It was a political campaign. Its primary function was not to provide medicines for Iraqi children, although we did, but to highlight the political conditions which were killing them. Sanctions! The largest donor was the ruler of the UAE (who gave approximately £500,000), followed by Fawaz Zureikat's £375,000, and then the now king of Saudi Arabia (a regime I loath) with £150,000. The donations of these three represented 99% of the campaign's total income. These donors were prominently identified at the time, there was no attempt to hide them, as this palooka claims. None of them have complained the money was ill-spent. Palast might take the view that finance should not be taken from such sources. Sorry, but needs must.

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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=8776

[bryant69]

8. Gosh that's completely believable.

Given his nonsensical attack on palast, I'm disinclined to believe this denial.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[shance]

5. Galloway is a hero and its obvious you want to ruin the thread.

Are you being paid to do this?

[wtmusic]

6. Galloway is a fucking hero

and Palast doesn't know what he's talking about

[0007]

10. Where did Mr. Adenoid_Hynkel go?