WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE DISLIKE GEORGE GALLOWAY?!?

Question

I'd like to know why so many people dislike George Galloway?? People never say why, and I'm just curious as to the reason to people's opinions! Thanks a lot!!

Answer 1

George Galloway is a dangerous demagogue and a crook who, as a previous poster said, stole food from the mouths of the Iraqi people when they were starving. To his credit, he opposed Saddam's tyranny in the 1980s when the Americans supported the dictator and his acts of genocide. But - like so much of the 'Left' - when the Americans switched sides, so did he. Hatred of American power appears to be his primary motive, rather than any positive left-wing values of his own. What can one say about him that he hasn't already said for himself and cover him with the contempt he deserves? It really is a shame that many comrades have chosen to side with a man who;



1. Said to Saddam Hussein, "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength and your indefatigability."

2. Refers to the Shi'ites Saddam murdered in the 1980s as "a fifth column" who "actively undermined the Iraqi war effort in the interests of their country's enemy."

3. Defended Saddam's claim to Kuwait, describing the province as "clearly a part of the greater Iraqi whole stolen from the motherland by perfidious Albion".

4. Described Saddam's mass murder of democrats, Kurds and other anti-Saddam forces in 1991 was a "civil war" that "involved massive violence on both sides".

5. When shown the vast scale of Saddam's palaces, he replies, "Our own head of state has a fair bit of real estate herself". Remember that during this time people in Iraq were dying of starvation, unlike in Britain.

6. Said, "Just as Stalin industrialized the Soviet Union, so on a different scale Saddam plotted Iraq's own Great Leap Forward,"

7. Openly supported an anti-democratic coup in Pakistan

8. Is an apologist for the Milosevic regime, and described Kosova as a "province of Serbia". He is also hopelessly ignorant about the region's history.

9. Openly supports Hamas (I support Palestinian statehood as well, but not theocratic groups like Hamas.)

10. Is an apologist for the genocidal dictatorship of Omar Al Bashir, and denies the genocide in Darfur. This is a person who cries crocodile tears for the Palestinians, but I guess the Kosovar Albanians and Africans of Sudan are not worth his time, or not anti-western enough.

11. Has the gall to call himself "anti-war" yet who supported the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

12. Supports the theocratic dictatorship in Iran, and appears on their propoganda channel Press TV

13. Said "Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President."

14. Believes that Iraqi trade unionists today are "quislings" and dismisses their tearful recollections of torture at the hands of Ba'athists as "a party trick".



Thrse are just some of the reasons why he is a total embarrassment.

Answer 2

The answers from Raibert and Kieru indicate to me that he is a free thinking person who will speak his mind. He will do for me.

I remember the rich toff on a panel trying to score points of Galloway, via the audience, he said > "you have fiddled expenses Mr Galloway" George replied > "My expenses claims are NOTHING - ZERO - ZILCH - NOT ONE PENNY HAVE i CLAIMED, so you better apologise or you will be hearing from my solicitor" !!!! The toff was only one of many who are incapable of in-depth debate with George because they lie and he does not and when you are NOT lying through your teeth it is easy to have a debate and to respond to your accusers.

Answer 3

For starters he defended Saddam Hussein, and it gets worse after that.



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Allegedly made fortunes from oil sales out of Iraq that had embargo's on them. Just another hypocritical millionaire left winger.

Answer 4

People despise Galloway partly because Galloway throws out his derogatory, vile insults at those he fears, here’s a sample of his sick rhetoric ....



"I think Rupert Murdoch is a malignant tumour in the heart of British public life."



About Christopher Hitchens: "A bloated, drink-sodden, former Trotskyist lunatic, who is just walking around as a sort of bag lady in Washington."



About Jeremy Clarkston: "That boiling, broiling vat of passed water. That grotesque spectacle of that vat, that vat of vile bile called Jeremy Clarkston."



About News of the World Journalists: "Hard-bitten, flea-bitten, dirty-raincoated, filthy hack and reptile."



About Sepp Blatter (FIFA): "His entire context is of a sexist, misogynist, reactionary purveyor of drivel - he’s a driveling, racist and misogynistic and sexist bigot."



About Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister: "Of course it helped that Alex Salmond was revealed as the sleekit conniving twister I always said he was - nicer in public than in private."



About Tony Blair: "Mr Blair is now as filthy as a pig-swill sweeper, though he's not nearly as honourable."



"Margaret Thatcher was the nightmare on Elm Street, she was the milk and bodysnatcher, she was Psycho. Of course, by all accounts she is now on her last legs and my religion precludes me wishing her death or unnecessary suffering. I shall not. But I must enter here a warning to the Prime Minister and his advisers. If Thatcher dies this year, DO NOT think about affording her a state funeral. If you so declare, a most unbecoming and divisive debate will immediately break out over the corpse of the deceased. And if you go ahead with it, I must give you fair warning now, that I and many, many thousands of others will be forced to disrupt any such state funeral."

About Raymond Littlejohn: ‘‘A Fat Pot Of Bile."



The same wee Galloway who invited callers to contact his talkSPORT programme with the best joke about the then President Bush who was going through an exploratory examination for bowel cancer. Bush was attending hospital for his exploratory colonoscopy, Galloway asked callers to contact his show and offered a prize (signed copy of his wee comic book) for the funniest ''rear end'' joke. A colonoscopy is probably the most common and reliable examination to detect cancerous tumours in the bowel. And Galloway’s reply to a complaint about his anti-Bush cancer insults - ‘‘And yes I would have offered a prize for the best cancerous tumour joke about Bush, if he wasn’t one already.’’





Galloway was asked .... Do you believe in GOD and if so why?"



Galloway reply ...



“I look up at the stars and wonder,

I look at the beauty of a newborn baby, and I wonder,

I look at the beauty of a trembling leaf, and I wonder,

I look at the beating of a butterfly’s wings or a bird hovering in flight, and I wonder,

and I don’t believe that these things happen by accident,

I believe in the almighty as a creator.”



I look at Galloway and I see a wee money-loving, bigoted, sectarian little hypocrite.

Answer 5

Well, he complained about iraq being allowed to kill it's own people. Then complained about sanctions, that where meant to hurt iraq's economy. He said that it's people where suffering (they where, but that's a different issues, to the one i'm talking about). He then complained about the invasion of iraq. What where we meant to do? the man will just say anything to get elected in my opinion.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Because many are peasants who like Churchill said do not have the brain power to think for themselves, they are serfs and continue to be serfs whose opinion is formed by right wing lies that England is built upon. George is a true individual and warrior against this and the establishment hate that soo much !

Answer 8

He's a character with a flashy line in powerful rhetoric. However, I get the feeling that

he's a very vain man. It beggars the question, 'where does his real interests lay, who

does he really serve?'

Answer 9

Who's he?

Answer 10

Never heard of him.

Answer 11

Because he's a muslim lover and hates his own country