> Galloway, right on the war, incredible orator, but, I suspect
> in the end we'll have confirmed he was in the receipt of
> Saddammist $.
Michael, every now and then you take pains to remind us of how much of an asshole you are, particularly when it comes to unfounded gossip and barely-comprehensible ad hominem bilge -- and all of it poorly written meanwhile, littered with cryptic allusions to marginal Maoist "loons" who no one cares about but you, strange abbreviations, unnecessary commas, and indications that you must have typed it all out while signficantly doped-up.
Galloway just comprehensively and decisively trashed the bullshit allegations of Norm Coleman in testimony before the US Senate, demonstrating that the parts of them that weren't totally made up were based on forged documents and lies, including the lies of the Daily Telegraph that he successfully sued for libel. You, meanwhile, say that you "suspect" that he was in receipt of money from the Ba'athists -- no need to present evidence, of course, just your "suspicion." You treat all of this like a game for idle gossip, when in the real world it is deadly-serious business, no matter the pleadings of an onanistic, self-important, sophomoric little twit like Johann Hari (who -- Galloway would correctly point out -- has on his hands a sizable share of the buckets of blood spilled in the Iraq war, a subject on which Galloway was spectacularly right and Hari spectacularly wrong, as proven by subsequent events on every day since).
For people who actually pay attention to real politics (as opposed to the hairsplitting with marginal sectarians that occupies Michael's time and attention, and which he conflates with matters of actual consequence), the whole Galloway thing is eerily reminiscent of the attack on Arthur Scargill. As demonstrated in Seumas Milne's "The Enemy Within," on the secret war against the National Union of Mineworkers in Britain, the MI5 almost certainly controlled Roger Windsor, an officer of the NUM who did weird things including publicly embracing Qaddafi for the TV cameras during a trip to ask for help from the Libyan unions at the height of the 1984-85 strike. Several years later, Robert Maxwell's papers were alleging personal graft on the part of Scargill involving Soviet union funds intended for a left-led international miners' federation. All of these allegations were PROVEN to be false -- and whatever else you think of Scargill (personally, I think he was the greatest union leader of the postwar First World), he was a paragon of personal integrity. Guess who was among his few defenders in Parliament? George Galloway -- and it was Galloway's questions that eventually exposed the secret role of the intelligence services in smearing Scargill.
The forgeries of documents that supposedly implicated Galloway have every hallmark of an intelligence agency put-up job, possibly involving the CIA and more likely involving the Brits. I happen not to share some of Galloway's political views myself, but anyone with eyes to see should notice what's going on. You should be ashamed of yourself for repeating these allegations without any proof, but you won't be ashamed -- because you're long past the point when you understand that something is actually at stake in these debates. It's all a game for you, and you don't have any convictions anymore -- if you ever did. And don't tell me for the umpteenth time how you got arrested for El Salvador. I don't give a fuck.
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