Comments on: Did Galloway Trade Oil For Saddam?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:59:31 +0000

“The really scary thing is that he participated in 3% of parliamentary votes and there are 8 MPs with worse records.”
Ahem. There were several Sinn Fein MPs elected to Westminster in the last parliament (and one more elected for the coming Parliament) who refuse to take their seats.

By: Papertiger

Papertiger — Fri, 13 May 2005 02:18:49 +0000

That puts him a step above Nancy Pelosi.
I wish our American Trotskyist, jerk, rhetorician, dime-store socialist ideologue and snake charmers, were so self aware as to know what George Galloway appears to know; that he has no business being a law maker, and that his input would only be detrimental to society.
Good on ya for that, George Galloway, you two bit con artist you.

By: Pauly

Pauly — Fri, 13 May 2005 02:04:49 +0000

The really scary thing is that he participated in 3% of parliamentary votes and there are 8 MPs with worse records.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 12 May 2005 15:04:27 +0000

Agree. The reversal in sentiment in Europe was caused because we were going to actually try and solve the problem after September 11, instead of lobbing a few ineffective missles and going back to the status quo ante. It is easy to be sympathetic to your competition when they are humbled at no expense to you. The sympathy ends once the competition resumes. This is news to some, however.
Ask an American on the street whether we are competing with Europe, and they’ll look at you like you are daft. Ask a European on the street whether they are competing with America, and they will agree, and, if truthful, comment on how poorly Europe is doing.
It is hard for Europeans to reconcile their centuries of setting the ground rules for international diplomacy ended several decades ago.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 12 May 2005 14:45:48 +0000

“His message of anti-Americanism, choosing as his target of opportunity President Bush, won a disturbing amount of applause from the students who had gathered to debate the issue.”
I don’t know anything about Galloway, but maybe we should ask ourselves why anti-Bush and anti-American rhetoric has so much resonance in Europe. As I recall, pro-American sentiment ran pretty strong after 9/11. Maybe, just maybe, the reversal in sentiment toward Americans is our fault, not theirs.