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George Galloway said that it would be….

…morally justified for a suicide bomber to assinate Blair. According to Galloway, because Blair has “the blood of 100,000 Iraqi’s” on his hands.

He went on to say that he did not call for this to happen but if it did it would not be the same as the attacks on 7/7. He would also inform the authorities if he found out such a plot were underway.

Whist I can see a strain of logic in his argument, Galloway is being overly simplistic in my view. Condemn Blair and Bush all you like. Fine. I’ve no problem with that. However, you cannot do this without condemning Saddam Hussien first, who by the way killed largr numbers of his own countrymen.

Any other views on this???? 🙂

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By: Grey Area - 31st May 2006 at 21:19

I don’t recall any Moderator actually advocating ejecting people from the cargo ramp of a C130 in mid-flight, Kev.

Well, certainly not from a very great height. 😀 😀 😀

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By: kev35 - 31st May 2006 at 21:18

Hmm… so someone should be killed for expressing unpopular and/or annoying opinions, eh?

Now where have we heard that before, I wonder? :rolleyes:

Wasn’t that back in the days when we were having moderator problems? :p

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By: Grey Area - 31st May 2006 at 21:11

Hmm… so someone should be killed for expressing unpopular and/or annoying opinions, eh?

Now where have we heard that before, I wonder? :rolleyes:

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By: Thorny - 31st May 2006 at 21:09

Galloway should be ‘removed’ via the rear loading loading ramp of a Hercules 1,000ft above the atlantic!

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By: Grey Area - 31st May 2006 at 18:06

He may or may not be an idiot, Sean. But he is an elected member of Parliament.

For now, at any rate…… :diablo:

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By: SOC - 31st May 2006 at 16:16

I think when Galloway talks about 100,000 deaths he is refering to deaths since the end of the first Gulf war due to sanctions.

Then he’s officially an idiot. Any Iraqi who died as a result of sanctions following the 1991 war was the fault of the man who caused said sanctions to be imposed: Hussein. Also, is Galloway aware that Blair wasn’t even the PM back then? So how is a death from, say, 1993 anything remotely like his fault?

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By: ELP - 31st May 2006 at 01:33

I doubt I agree with everything he says, but he is a hell of a great public speaker. I wish I had his public speaking skills. :p

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By: duxfordhawk - 29th May 2006 at 23:06

The man loves the sound of his own voice, He craves publicity and would go to the opening of a envelope if he thought it would get him some TV or newspaper time, He has to be controversial to get the headlines, Having said that is seems the Reporter set the question expecting him to answer it in this way, He gladly obliged being so self inportant.
What troubles me is that people may listen to him and not see him as the Clown figure he is, Iraq is a mess and people are dying everyday but this man to me can only cause more trouble and more deaths, Thats my fear.

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By: SCO - 28th May 2006 at 16:01

Well Galloway seems to just like causing a bit of controversy in order to keep himself in the spotlight and fuel his own ego!

In terms of the number of deaths in Iraq the coalition hasn’t really bothered counting civilian deaths, so its difficult to tell.

Altough I did find this site that is a Database of civilian deaths in Iraq, which claims around 40,000 have been killed since 2003…

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

Also heres an article from the BBC about the civilian death toll in Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4525412.stm

I think when Galloway talks about 100,000 deaths he is refering to deaths since the end of the first Gulf war due to sanctions.

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By: Mr Creosote - 28th May 2006 at 15:29

I can never forgive Galloway for his “Sir, we salute you” performance, clicking his heels and bowing his head to a tyrant who was already known to have gassed thousands of his own citizens. And as for fannying around in a leotard on Big Brother when he should have been doing his job as an MP… “Respect”? I think not.

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By: Comet - 28th May 2006 at 10:58

More Iraqis seem to have been killed by their own people in suicide attacks, never a day goes by when we don’t see on the news that dozens more people have been killed in a car bomb or some other suicide blast.

Add to that the number killed by Saddam Hussein and it is easily more than have been killed in Allied airstrikes.

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By: BuffPuff - 27th May 2006 at 10:40

Good question Viper. To be honest, I’m not sure one can honestly say how many people lose thier lives in a conflict, epedemic or natuaral disaster (tsnami, hurricane, earthquake flood, volcano).

I’ve heard the 100,000 figure before. Not sure if this includes combatants or not. Not even sure whether it includes the poor Iraqi’s killed by suicide bombers and roadside explosives.

Either way, this will not disgiuse the fact Saddam has killed larger numbers of his own countrymen. Surely it would have been morally right to assainate him also???

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By: bombsaway - 27th May 2006 at 00:21

Galloway is complete idiot. He should be chucked out of parliment and face legal,

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