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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