George Galloway Quotes
I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.
Galloway, George. Testimony before the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Hearings on Oil-for-Food Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, 17 May 2005.
Ironically Germany which has publicly usually been so sensitive and responsible after their massive chemical extermination in the concentration camps of WWII, was embarrassed by their own private companies which, to make money, sold the chemicals and the technology to the then worst murderer in the world.
They almost certainly did when they put down some protests / demonstrations during the Arab Spring. Sophisticated allies point out that the United States (Ohio National Guard) troops that killed the peaceful anti-Vietnam War protesters did so with American made weapons.
This quotation is a good example of how tolerant some nations can be in terms of maintaining diplomatic relations and trade relations with other countries. The American and English governments chose to simply protest and condemn the slanderous statement but decided that the Prime Minister was pandering to his political local Islamic base, so took no further action and kept open diplomatic relations. Mahathir had a history of being very accusatory of the West with respect to anything that affected the Arab Muslims. The number of Muslims killed by the Americans and British in the Iraq War was very small compared to the huge number of Muslims killed by other Muslims in their Sunni Shiite civil war. While Bush and Blair both generated support for the Iraq invasion by making claims of WMD development in Iraq that were false, it is not clear whether or not they knew their statements were false, should have known that they were false, created an atmosphere against Iraq that was likely to produce false accusations, or were simple misled by poor intelligence. Mahathir, of course, chose to assume the worst case, and claim it was true, which is what many people think Bush and Blair did in analyzing the intelligence on Iraq.
George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster and writer. He currently presents The Mother of All Talk Shows on Radio Sputnik and Sputnik on RT UK. Between 1987 and 2015, except for a period between 2010 and 2012, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for four constituencies, first for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party, the latter of which he founded in 2004 and led until its dissolution in 2016. He is currently the leader of the Workers Party of Britain, which he founded in 2019 in response to the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 General Election, and the Lead Spokesman for All for Unity, a Scottish-based party he founded to support British unionism in the face of rising support for Scottish independence and the Scottish National Party (SNP).
