Ther-wack!
I'm not a big fan of Gorgeous George but he sure does know how to smack down a liar.
Sadly, the American media is all too keen to allow the Bushistas to get away with the sort of "schoolboy howler" Galloway points up here.
As so much of the bullshit spouted by the right, there doesn't seem to be an ounce of truth about the allegations laid on Galloway; not a grain either in those levelled at Kofi Annan. That doesn't prevent the regressives from smearing any and everyone who opposes the neocons, of course; they're well aware that mud sticks so long as enough is thrown and equally aware that the press is far keener on printing the mud than cleaning it away by indulging in the plain truth when it becomes apparent.
I remind myself that none of this helps the truth that our troops are still in Iraq, murdering the populace and being murdered in their turn, to absolutely no discernible purpose. It remains true that our troops are a main cause of the troubles in Iraq, that our continuing to imprison and torture Iraqis and other Muslims without regard for the "values" we are supposed to be fighting for enrages much of the world and that it is all, as Galloway says, prosecuted on the back of a "pack of lies". How many of the "terrorists" have faced a court? Moussaoui had his odd and unsatisfactory trial. Some who committed acts not connected to 9/11 have, of course (and in the case of the Algerian ricin gang -- all were acquitted bar the murderer of a policeman; one thinks only how tragic it was that a man was killed for no reason because there was in fact no reason to even be in the man's flat who killed him). But of those interned at Gitmo, at Bagram and in our other jails, how many have faced their peers -- us -- and been tried under our laws?
posted by Dr Zen @ 3:53 pm
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