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Title: What Galloway said
Source: Times Online (UK)
URL Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616893,00.html
Published: May 18, 2005
Author: Galloway
Post Date: 2005-05-17 19:30:37 by robin
Keywords: Galloway, What, said
Views: 262
Comments: 77

“Senator, this is the mother of all smoke screens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq’s wealth.”

“Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq’s wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Haliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq’s money, but the money of the American taxpayer.”

“If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac, who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today.”

“You have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists of names from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government.”

“I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever having written to me or telephoned me, without any contact with me whatsoever, and you call that justice.”

“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. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war.”

“I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and American Governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.”

“Senator, in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 have paid with their lives, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies.”

**********************************************************


Tanned, pugnacious and cussed: Galloway seized his moment on a global stage

Galloway is unrepentant as he attacks US senators

From James Bone in Washington


GEORGE GALLOWAY put US Iraq policy on trial in a powerful performance yesterday before a Senate committee that had accused him of being in the pay of Saddam Hussein.

The defiant Respect party MP turned the tables on senators who had accused him of receiving oil allocations from Iraq with a stinging criticism of the war against Iraq to an American television audience that rarely hears such attacks on US policy.

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Mr Galloway told the committee’s Republican chairman, Norm Coleman, that he was engaged in “the mother of all smokescreens” to divert attention from US failings.

“I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that the case for invading was a pack of lies,” he said.

He had given warning that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction and had no connection to al-Qaeda or the September 11 attacks, and that the Iraqi people would resist invasion, he said. “Senator, in everything I said about Iraq I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 have paid with their lives — 1,600 of them American soldiers, sent to their death on a pack of lies.”

Mr Galloway said he had met Saddam only twice. “I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld (the US Defence Secretary) met him. The difference is that he met him to sell him guns and to give him maps to better target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war.”

He accused American multinational companies such as Haliburton of plundering Iraq since the invasion, and claimed that the real sanctions busters had been US companies acting with Washington’s connivance.

Afterwards Mr Coleman described Mr Galloway’s credibility as very suspect and spoke of consequences if he was found to have lied under oath.

Mr Galloway told CNN: “Most of the traffic I’m getting is that the British parliamentary tradition won . . . I came not as the accused but as the accuser.”

The MP flew to Washington at his own expense after the permanent subcommittee on investigations accused him of receiving 20 million barrels of “oil allocations” from Saddam. It suggested that he might have used his anti-sanctions campaign, the Mariam Appeal, to “conceal payments”.

The committee’s charges were based on Iraqi documents and interviews with senior Saddam officials. They named Mr Galloway as the recipient of oil allocations handled by a French company, Aredio Petroleum, and Middle East ASI, a Jordanian company owned by Fawaz Zureikat who contributed £375,000 to the appeal. But the committee could trace no payments to Mr Galloway himself.

Mr Galloway called the charges utterly preposterous, adding: “You have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up since the installation of your puppet government.”
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#38. To: robin (#35)

It's much more likely that Chertoff will go after you America-hating, anti- semitic kooks. You'll all end up like Zundel.

A Jew enforcing anti-Semitic laws?

Laughable :)

Jethro Tull  posted on  2005-05-17   22:00:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Zipporah (#26)

Chrissie is a laff riot. God, I abhor that thug. Calling Galloway a thug is hilarious; Chrissie is the biggest thug around. When them Trotskyites turn Neocon, they really get vicious. See David horrorwitz for another example.

Absolutists of any stripe are abhorrent. When I was a college freshman, I joined SDS, which was in its death throes by then. I quit within a few months, first when they attacked ROTC for no particular reason (hey, better to have Second Looies who have actually smoked a joint or listened to Jimi Hendrix than have those, at that time, total nazis from the West Points running things...more likely they'll keep their men alive) and then by opposing free speech.

I went back to being an independent. Of course, that was during the Nixon years, so I was pretty much a Dem, just a couple of years after protesting against Humphrey, as in Dump the Hump, for his mindless support of the war. I was too young to vote for Nixon or Humphrey, but i would definitely have voted for Pat Paulson.

I remember a time when Republicans and Democrats could agree on a lot of stuff, but the GOP has moved so far right and the Dems have too. I'd like to see some libertarian/progressive raprochement that could challenge these guys. I really like a lot of Dems (Durbin in particular, but Russ Feingold too) but I'm mainly an anti-Republican. I work for Dems, but they do and say the stupidest things. They allow gay marriage to become a big issue, when it is a very small one, compared to SS and war and shit. I think most people can agree that gays should have rights like insurance and hospital visitation and so on. At some point, marriage will probably happen, but, you know, who CARES? Is marriage such a big deal?

And for abortion, I believe in a right to choose. But it should be RARE, REALLY RARE. We have the ability to absorb these extra children, but we will not spend the money to take care of them. I have a wonderful daughter because I do not believe in abortion. She's the best thing in my life, and I was in love with her long before she was born. But if we're not going to offer birth control advice to young, impressionable girls, if we are not going to help them through their pregnancies, if we are not willing to cut the red tape for adoption (including those AWFUL loving gay couples), then we are promoting abortion. It will happen, legally or illegally. Even McCain said he would send his daughter to Canada if it was outlawed.

Since I am on a rant, this Jew-bashing has to stop. There are right-wing Jews, but the vast majority of Israelis are moderate or left-wing. They're just doing what our sheep do here, vote for the clown who STARTED the war because he will keep them SAFE. You all may remember that shithead Sharon stomping through the Mount, spitting on Palestinians. He started the Intifadah.

Just like our punk and his overlords started the disastrous war we're fighting. They knew damn well there were no WMDs, but they need that fiction, along with the fictions of 911 and Al Qaeda connections to get the sheep to fight.

We have to help the Dems overthrow the Rethugs now, and then form a REAL third party that can address the real issues, like tax reform, shoring up SS, crucifying the Enron types who rape our country, and backing off from military crap. We have nearly no need to intervene militarily anywhere in the world. But that would be bad for the military/industrial complex. Which, btw, was the driving force in Nazi Germany.

/Rant off

Mekons4  posted on  2005-05-17   22:11:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: robin (#37)

The "relieved that I still have my teeth because I'm a stinking little sniveling creep who in a just world would have knee-dropped and crying like a baby on the floor, spitting bloody chiclets" look.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-05-17   22:13:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Mekons4 (#39)

My issues re Israel are political plain and simple.. when they effect the US policy..nothing more or less.. our tax $$, the spying etc.. those are my issues.. what others think or believe is their deal.. Regarding the Democrats.. IF there were a true difference in the parties, they would be DEMANDING investigations re the Iraq war, etc etc.. but they are not.. if you listen closely to the Democrates (not the constituency) the only complaint they seem to have is that the US went into Iraq unilaterally.. not multilaterly.. check out the Third Way.. the Progressive Democrats.. you will see there is little to no difference.. both parties have been co-opted by the neocon agenda.. there is no answer in either party.. and due to vote fraud voters have no choice in the matter anyway..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-05-17   22:47:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: robin (#37)

Here is the 'before' ..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-05-17   22:48:39 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: robin (#2)

I heard he called Coleman a "pro- Israel, pro-war, neocon hawk, and the lickspittle of George W. Bush." ROFLMAO!!!

This guy Galloway is the hero of the hour!!! I want to send him a fan letter.

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   0:08:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: robin (#0)

The committee’s charges were based on Iraqi documents and interviews with senior Saddam officials.

I thought Iraq under Saddam was the root of all evil. Since fucking WHEN are we expected to believe such sources as "senior Saddam officials"? Aren't they the "bad guys", Senator Coleman? Are they the bad guys or the good guys? Get your story straight!

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   0:13:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#43)

Highly recommend...

Watch/listen to him at the link Zip posted above. There's a short version and a long 47 minute complete version. Also a short audio link.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   0:14:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#44)

One of the "sources" Galloway points out is a POW that he never met. He explained to the dolt Coleman that POWs might be made to say anything.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   0:15:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: robin (#46)

One of the "sources" Galloway points out is a POW that he never met. He explained to the dolt Coleman that POWs might be made to say anything.

.. what he said about the treatment of POWs.. was great .. what was so bizarre was that Coleman didnt miss a beat.. none of what Galloway said didnt seem to effect him whatsoever..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-05-18   0:21:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: robin, 1776, Bayonne, Brian S (#35)

her posts exude hatred and then she posts a smiley at the end of them. that is one evil, caliginous woman.

christine  posted on  2005-05-18   0:23:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: Mekons4 (#22)

You never know when the tipping point is going to come. With Nixon, it was some lowly functionary (Butterfield?) being questioned about the White House routine in a small subcommittee hearing who suddenly revealed that every word in the Oval Office was on tape. I'm not sure exactly where it occurred with LBJ, but he went from being a hugely popular president to a lowlife almost overnight.

(smile) You and Galloway are giving me hope!!

And... and... Coleman's secret document... a FORGERY?? Goodness gracious, is no one concerned? Someone call "Fuckhead" (lawyer Harry McDougald of Atlanta) from freerepublic! He's some kind of big expert on forgery...

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   0:29:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: robin (#46)

I just watched the entire 47 minutes. Man was that something our quaffed bagmen Senators were not ready for.

How embarassing, first of all, to see the performance of our senators. His command of the language put those stuffed shirts to shame.

I loved his refusal to get pidgeon holed into the idiot tactic of these Committees- the one word "yes or no" answer.

Levin made an ass out of himself even more than Coleman. At one point Galloway said to Levin to the effect: "You want me to get upset about the illegality of a kickback when you went to war illegally and have killed thousands?"

Man- they were scarred of this guy. He was not playing their Beltway game.

Who allowed this to happen is my question?

They should have known this guy was not going to play within the polite beltway parameters of the two party fraud and pretend to be "outraged" at petty kickbacks in the face of the larger crimes of DC.

Burkeman1  posted on  2005-05-18   0:29:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: Mekons4 (#24)

"You're a drink-soaked former-Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway informed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink," he added later, ignoring Mr Hitchens's questions and staring intently ahead.

Gawwwwwwwd... it just doesn't get any better than this!!

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   0:32:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: robin (#25)

"You're a drink-soaked former-Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway informed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink," he added later, ignoring Mr Hitchens's questions and staring intently ahead.

Mr. Galloway, Mr. Galloway! Excuse me, sir, but you left out "faggot"!

Now we see why Hitchens spends much of his time on this side of the Atlantic.

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   0:35:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: crack monkey (#27)

Yes, clips of it were shown on "Hardball" and on CNN.

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   0:36:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Burkeman1 (#50)

My reactions as well.
Apparently Galloway hasn't had very many nice words for Tony Blair or Smirk in the past. Plus, his stance on the war must have made someone decide to try and project one or two of the Regime's crimes onto him.

As you point out, they really had no idea who they were dealing with.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   0:37:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#52)

Now we see why Hitchens spends much of his time on this side of the Atlantic.

LOL!! I can't think of any American who would compete well Galloway. We're so saturated with Bushisms, Rove's tricks, and Neocon ham-handed propaganda; Galloway is a really refreshing change!

I wonder how the Scotsman will play in the South, among the supporters of Bush's march to Armegeddon.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   0:43:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Mekons4 (#39)

The GOP has not "moved right." The reason the GOP is the majority party today is that they have moved left. They have embraced big government and federal power whole heartedly.

I don't know where you have been but the GOP has initiated the biggest social welfare programs since LBJ and is even now dispensing money through "churches" to run them. Now, you may not like that- but it is big government. You may not like how the GOP uses big government but it is doing so.

They have not eliminated a single program and have increased the size of government hugely. Clinton seems like Coolidge in comparison to Bush on that score.

The GOP is the majority party today because they dispense the federal goodies and keep the freebie wagon rolling even more than the dems but they do it in cultural ways you find distasteful - i.e. through Churches and through using corporatations to run their big gov handouts rather than a giant fed bureaucracy. The GOP way of big government is actaully fascist and more dangerous. At least the Dems use of BG is overt and in the form of a recognizable federal department or bureaucracy. The GOP is co- opting "private" business and making them dependent on government largesse and subject to all manner of federal intrustion, regulation, and control (witness our corporate media that is at the mercy of the federal stick and carrot).

What the GOP offers- is the same and more federal handouts, freebies, giveaways, and bribes as the Dems do without the added baggage of being for every weirdo left wing fringe social movement of freak minority. The offer the handouts without insulting peoples values. That's it. And they scare voters with the Dems embrace of every whacko group out there every election cycle. The GOP has no intention of every "winning" the abortion issue or letting it be settled once and for all. They want it legal ultimatley- as it will forever be a fund raiser for them. Same with Gay marraiage and all these issues that have no business at the fed level. Without these bludgeon issues on the national level the GOP would be dead.

Burkeman1  posted on  2005-05-18   0:45:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: robin (#55)

I wonder how the Scotsman will play in the South, among the supporters of Bush's march to Armegeddon.

He certainly played well in this household!

And how did he play in Ohio? Get ready! Wisdom incoming:

I listened to some of his so called "testimony". Could have been the transcript from any randomly selected Bill Maher show. Half truths, misrepresentations, egotism, and insane leftwing ideology.

Badeye posted on 2005-05-17 13:59:22 ET Reply Trace

Butteye's posts:

Half truths... check.

Misrepresentations... check.

Egotism... check.

Stupid, canned, dumbed-down rightwing ideology... check.

Irrelevance and mental laziness... check.

Embarrassment to his fellow Ohioans... check.

Uninformed cliches... check.

Delusions of grandeur... check.

Embarrassment to all republicans... priceless.

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   1:00:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#49)

lawyer Harry McDougald of Atlanta) from freerepublic! He's some kind of big expert on forgery...

This is going to be fun. The Bushies just went over the line, I think.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-05-18   1:05:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: robin (#55)

I am really beginning to detest Southerners. The first attempts as secession was from New England. They didn't want to be tainted by being in a Union with a bunch of slave states ruled over by a few families each with a white population nearly as bad off as the slaves as well but made to "feel" better about themselves because they were "white." The South has always been a bunch of peasants, easily controlled and distracted by a tiny ruling band of elites. Complete sheep.

New England though, at the time had DC in it's hands and wanted to "keep the union" to benefit it's industrial elite. We should have let them go. They would have been our Mexico.

Burkeman1  posted on  2005-05-18   1:09:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: Burkeman1 (#56)

They have not eliminated a single program and have increased the size of government hugely. Clinton seems like Coolidge in comparison to Bush on that score.

You and I may never agree, but I respect you a lot. I am a deficit hawk, which is why I loved Clinton, because he got it. Cutting taxes on the producers, who are not the fucking CEOs, who produce nothing, and raising them on the rich is the way to go. The rich should be paying us for not burning down their little castles. The bushies are jacking up the cost center on total bullshit to bankrupt the government. They are giggling about this.

Society is meant to improve the lives of the least able to protect themselves. If it doesn't, it dies. We will die soon if the Bushies get their way. Dick Cheney should be strangling on a barbed wire noose. He's a lying crook. I want these thugs in a SuperMax. Well, maybe not.Your chances of being gang-raped are far lower.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-05-18   1:16:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: Burkeman1 (#59)

This time we say, oh, OK, you wanna leave? Fine. Live on your Krispy Kremes and Piggly Wiggleys and Wal-Marts. And we will keep Wall St. and GE and Target and so on. If you look at the map, you punkass southerners are getting a lot more back from us than you pay in taxes. So, fuckwads, PLEASE secede again. We will love it.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-05-18   1:21:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: Mekons4 (#60)

Society is meant to improve the lives of the least able to protect themselves.

Yes, society does provide for those things. Government is not society and when government trys to take over that responsibility it destroys society and it has largely done so in America.

When people, real people, you and me, are responsible for those around us we will do the right thing. But when government claims that responsibility- or we let our responsibility for others be taken by government then society dies and we justify our non action by saying "it is government's job to take care of the needy". It isn't. It is our job. Being all indignant and blaming government for not "doing enough" is the ultimate copout.

It is rather easy to sit there and bask in your moral righteouness by saying how you support a party that wants to give people's money away to "help" the needy. That is much easier than actually doing anything yourself.

Burkeman1  posted on  2005-05-18   1:29:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: Mekons4 (#58)

This is going to be fun. The Bushies just went over the line, I think.

Fingers crossed!

(Meanwhile, on the subject of Norm Coleman's secret forged document, Atlanta lawyer Harry "Fuckhead" McDougald is strangely silent...)

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   1:51:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#57)

Butteye's posts:

Half truths... check.

Misrepresentations... check.

Egotism... check.

Stupid, canned, dumbed-down rightwing ideology... check.

Irrelevance and mental laziness... check.

Embarrassment to his fellow Ohioans... check.

Uninformed cliches... check.

Delusions of grandeur... check.

Embarrassment to all republicans... priceless.

Amen!

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   9:23:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: Burkeman1 (#59)

Hold on! I only brought up the South, because the Scots are so well represented there.
Here's a real Scotsman, telling it like it is, with his nice crrrisp Scottish brogue, and nothing he says matches anything the Southern Sheeple have been hearing on Faux News.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   9:29:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#66. To: robin (#0)

an Englishman comes to America and tells off the tyrants. I like it.

Red Jones  posted on  2005-05-18   14:04:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#67. To: Red Jones (#66)

Better than that Red, a Scotsman comes to America and tells off the tyrants.

Check for the link (posted by Zip and me on this thread) for the 47 minute video, or if you don't have time, there's a much shorter version.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   14:06:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#68. To: robin (#67)

yeah, a Scottsman! You're right.

How American of this guy to tell off the tyrants. how the UK & the US have come full circle.

How we rebelled against the tyrants and won, and then the tyrants quietly took back their rule over us!

oh come Jesus come!

Red Jones  posted on  2005-05-18   14:09:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#69. To: Zipporah, Mekons4, and anyone else (#41)

Mekons4 wrote:
Since I am on a rant, this Jew-bashing has to stop. There are right-wing Jews, but the vast majority of Israelis are moderate or left-wing. They're just doing what our sheep do here, vote for the clown who STARTED the war because he will keep them SAFE. You all may remember that shithead Sharon stomping through the Mount, spitting on Palestinians. He started the Intifadah.

Zipporah wrote:
My issues re Israel are political plain and simple.. when they effect the US policy..nothing more or less.. our tax $$, the spying etc.. those are my issues.. what others think or believe is their deal.. Regarding the Democrats.. IF there were a true difference in the parties, they would be DEMANDING investigations re the Iraq war, etc etc.. but they are not.. if you listen closely to the Democrates (not the constituency) the only complaint they seem to have is that the US went into Iraq unilaterally.. not multilaterly.. check out the Third Way.. the Progressive Democrats.. you will see there is little to no difference.. both parties have been co-opted by the neocon agenda.. there is no answer in either party.. and due to vote fraud voters have no choice in the matter anyway..

You are correct by saying that "the vast majority of Israelis are moderate or left-wing." However, and more importantly, the right-wing (if you will) consists of the vast majority of mainstream Christians, who are also pro- Zionist, and place Israeli interests above and beyond America's, and for a matter of fact, have placed higher than their own "Christian" convictions. (If you need me to go into detail, I will. I wanted to keep this response short.)

This "Jew-bashing" as you call it, rests primarily on the responsibility of the illegal state of Israel and all who $upport it. As you may already know, Zionism has no political affiliations regarding the left and right paradox of the American soap opera that has divided this nation, year in year out. BOTH parties support Israel, unconditionally ... and since they do, this "Jew-bashing" as you call it, will stop when the bashing down of America ceases from the hands of the Jews, and their loyal Goyim (Christian Zionists, leftist atheists, et.al.)

Zipporah hits it right by talking about U.S. foreign and domestic policies. And talking about the subject, you cannot nor should not ignore the HUGH Jewish aspect to it.

NOLAJBS  posted on  2005-05-18   14:43:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#70. To: NOLAJBS, Mekons4 (#69)

Since I am on a rant, this Jew-bashing has to stop. There are right-wing Jews, but the vast majority of Israelis are moderate or left-wing. They're just doing what our sheep do here, vote for the clown who STARTED the war because he will keep them SAFE. You all may remember that shithead Sharon stomping through the Mount, spitting on Palestinians. He started the Intifadah.

I posted somewhere here recently that I wouldn't want the rest of the world to judge me or our nation by our current, evil leaders. The same can be said for Israel, IMO.
There is a website Jews Against Zionism, indicating there is a difference. I use the word Zionist to differentiate what I dislike about Israel. Anti-Zionist does not equal anti-semite.

That's not a superficial semantic coverup.

Israel should be allowed to exist. The Palistinians should be allowed a homeland. We should not be involved in any of it. But, as Zip points out, we are heavily involved.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   14:54:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#71. To: robin, christine, Eoghan, zipporah, Jethro Tull, Bayonne (#70)

I posted somewhere here recently that I wouldn't want the rest of the world to judge me or our nation by our current, evil leaders. The same can be said for Israel, IMO. There is a website Jews Against Zionism, indicating there is a difference. I use the word Zionist to differentiate what I dislike about Israel. Anti-Zionist does not equal anti-semite.

The overwhelming majority of Israelis voted for Sharon, twice.
The innocents among them would equate to the same percentage of Americans who say, voted Peace and Freedom Party, for instance.

Zionism is one head of the beast, what is another assault on our people has been the destruction of our demographics through massive immigration and the destruction of our culture. Nothing to do with "Zionsim" or "zionists".

They call Pat Buchanan an "anti-semite".
We are not supposed to discuss the intentional destruction of everything we have cherished, otherwise the name-calling begins.

Our house is on fire and they don't want us to say a word.

1776  posted on  2005-05-18   15:46:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#72. To: 1776 (#71)

The overwhelming majority of Israelis voted for Sharon, twice. The innocents among them would equate to the same percentage of Americans who say, voted Peace and Freedom Party, for instance.

Disappointing indeed.

They call Pat Buchanan an "anti-semite". We are not supposed to discuss the intentional destruction of everything we have cherished, otherwise the name-calling begins.

Our house is on fire and they don't want us to say a word.

Name-calling is to be expected, ending up in prison like Zundel and Matt Hale takes it to a whole new level.

robin  posted on  2005-05-18   15:52:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#73. To: robin (#72)

Name-calling is to be expected, ending up in prison like Zundel and Matt Hale takes it to a whole new level.

It is the same pattern that was used last century, whether in their guise as Bolsheviks or passage of similar laws in England and elsewhere.
Stalin had the death penalty for "anti-semitism" and we know now that "anti-semitism" is telling the truth, and the truth is no defense as Australian court ruled when it comes to the questioning of the Holohoax or any of the other crimes against the West by these people, pointing out the CRIMINALS is a crime.

You can always tell who runs the show by who you can criticize.

1776  posted on  2005-05-18   16:05:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#74. To: robin (#64)

I wouldn't be surprised if it were in fact the democrats who pay SOME of these bots to post a lot.

h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t  posted on  2005-05-18   21:21:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#75. To: h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t (#43)

This guy Galloway is the hero of the hour!!! I want to send him a fan letter.

gallowayg@parliament.uk

justlurking  posted on  2005-05-19   18:35:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#76. To: justlurking (#75)

gallowayg@parliament.uk

bttt

wbales  posted on  2005-05-19   20:36:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#77. To: justlurking, zipporah, robin (#76)

POPINJAY

A vain or conceited person, one given to pretentious displays.

This deeply insulting word is now rather dated or literary. A good example can be found in Joseph Conrad’s short story The End of the Tether of 1902: “When he looked around in the club he saw only a lot of conceited popinjays too selfish to think of making a good woman happy”.

Dictionaries say a popinjay was also at one time the usual name for a parrot, and in that lies the origin of the derogatory term. What could be more gaudily and squawkingly in your face than a parrot? What more perfect term for an empty chatterer, fop or coxcomb? Who’s a pretty boy, then?

It’s an ancient imprecation, already of some age when Shakespeare used it in Henry IV, but the literal parrot sense goes back even further, to the latter part of the fourteenth century. It was also used for a device on a post to shoot at, the archers’ equivalent of the quintain, usually it seems because the mark was a figure of a parrot. That explains references such as this one, in Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott: “When the musters had been made, and duly reported, the young men, as was usual, were to mix in various sports, of which the chief was to shoot at the popinjay, an ancient game formerly practised with archery, but at this period with fire-arms”.

The word travelled with the bird from Africa and can be traced back to the Arabic babbaga, through Spanish papagayo and Old French papeiaye. One of the earlier English versions (it had lots of forms before it settled to the spelling we know now) was papengay but it seems the ending was changed because people thought the name referred to a sort of jay.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-pop2.htm

wbales  posted on  2005-05-19   21:05:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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