Yes. I only read the reports in today's online press & was cheered by
his knock-them-down performance; your counter-quote, which I didn't
know, though I have heard reports of his "Stalinist" propensities, is
damning. Thank you for pointing this out. It would be interesting to
know exactly what he meant by "until victory, until Jerusalem." As if
Saddam cared about the Palestinian people. Talk of victory seems to be
automatically rancid & vicious at present. Wer spricht vom Siegen?
Überstehn ist alles.
mj
Dominic Fox wrote:
>Lickspittle (said of Senator Cole)? Popinjay (said, somewhat
>hilariously, of Mr Hitchens)? What century is this again?
>
>I enjoyed very much Mr Galloway's performance on Capitol Hill
>yesterday - whatever else one might say about the old Stalinist
>tosspot, he sure can testify. Bonus points for sticking it to
>Rumsfeld, although it's a pity that the jabs were purely rhetorical
>(now there's a bare-knuckle fight I'd pay to see. Actually,
>bare-knuckle be buggered. Better if both were armed - say, Galloway
>with a corkscrew, Rumsfeld with a small spoon).
>
>Almost one might forgive, almost forget. But not quite. Here's another
>example of that fine rhetoric at work:
>
>"Your excellency, Mr President, I greet you in the name of the many
>thousands of people in Britain who stood against the tide and opposed
>the war and aggression against Iraq and continue to oppose the war by
>economic means, which is aimed to strangle the life out of the great
>people of Iraq ... I greet you too in the name of the Palestinian
>people ... I thought the president would appreciate to know that even
>today, three years after the war, I still meet families who are
>calling their newborn sons Saddam. Sir, I salute your courage, your
>strength your indefatigability. And I want you to know that we are
>with you until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem."
>
>Fair warms the cockles, don't it?
>
>I feel that every television appearance of Mr Galloway's from now on
>should be prefaced by the footage from Baghdad TV of the occasion at
>which he delivered himself of this encomium. Perhaps they could show
>it again after he had finished speaking.
>
>Dominic
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