Outspoken U.K. Lawmaker Galloway to Tour U.S.

[Algorem]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-galloway,0,6380561.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

By Associated Press

May 26, 2005, 5:34 PM EDT


LONDON -- Maverick British lawmaker George Galloway, who captured headlines this month during a fiery Senate appearance, plans on continuing his anti-war theme during a summer speaking tour of the United States.

Galloway appeared after the Senate committee released documents it claimed showed he and other international figures received valuable oil allocations from Saddam as a reward for opposing U.N. sanctions on Iraq. Galloway allegedly received 20 million barrels' worth between 2000 and 2003.

He vehemently denied the accusations and went on to accuse the U.S. of crimes in Iraq.

"As Oscar Wilde said, sometimes the most bitter trials turn out to be blessings in disguise," Galloway said Thursday. "In America, people pay huge sums of money to hear you speak."...

[Dinger]

1. What Is His Schedule?

I HAVE to know! (thanks : )

[Algorem]

3. this one says Harvard,Princeton and Yale

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1623587,00.html

Galloway to tour US
By A Correspondent

GEORGE GALLOWAY has been invited on a lecture tour of America’s Ivy League universities as a result of his performance before the US Senate.

Washington was left buzzing after the Respect MP traded verbal blows with senators who had accused him of making money from Iraq’s Oil-for-Food programme.

Mr Galloway, 51, could earn £5,000 per speech when he addresses audiences at Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities.

Mr Galloway told Sunday with Adam Boulton on Sky News that he did not ask those who funded the appeal he set up to help an Iraqi girl suffering from leukaemia where they had got their money. He said that the Mariam Appeal had received funding from “two kings and an Arab businessman...


http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=561552005

Galloway to cash in on his tongue-lashing of US senators

PETER DOYLE

MAVERICK MP "Gorgeous" George Galloway is set for a money-spinning speaking tour of America's Ivy League colleges following his barnstorming performance at the United States senate.

Washington was buzzing after the former boxer traded verbal blows with senators who had accused him of making blood money from Iraq's Oil-for-Food programme.

Mr Galloway, who could charge £5,000 per speech, would earn as much as he was accused of making in dodgy oil deals after just 30 appearances on the lucrative college lecture circuit.

During last Thursday's hearing the Respect Party MP savaged the US government for starting a war in Iraq that, he said, has claimed 100,000 lives...

[dArKeR]

31. He's not coming to my rual 500 person OR town? Darn!

One thing I can tell you for sure. My town is so redneck. It's about the same as a white Christian parish in South Carolina. But isn't it strange that a majority of my town is NOT repuke? Where did aWol get all his votes from?

[Kelvin Mace]

2. I want to meet this man

and have his baby. <g> I'll have to do the sex change thing first, though.

[Pastiche423]

15. I do too!

Well actually, I'd like the baby making process minus having the baby.

[bennywhale]

29. Well you may be interested in his vehement anti-abortion views.

Like many socialists in Britain he is passionately anti-abortion full stop. He may find he has more things in common with the religious right. Although he's not in the slightest bit religious.

[Algorem]

38. well that sucks.

Speaking to The Independent on Sunday, Galloway said that he is “strongly against abortion. I believe life begins at conception and therefore unborn babies have rights. I think abortion is immoral.” He added: “I believe in god. I have to believe that the collection of cells has a soul” (April 4). In a certain sense this is not really news, of course. When he was in the Labour Party Galloway had a consistent record of opposition to a woman’s right to choose. The website of the reactionary campaigning organisation, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, characterises him as a “courageous fighter” for his stance on this and related questions (www.spuc.org.uk).

But he is no longer a Labour Party backbencher. George Galloway is the leading figure in Respect - he also heads our London list for the EU elections. With that there comes collective responsibility. Otherwise the danger is that what George Galloway says will be equated in the public mind with what Respect thinks.

For example, MAB’s press release “welcomed” his “statements on faith and god” and concluded that British muslims will now “see Respect as a real alternative to the main political parties” (April 24). This use of George Galloway’s reactionary views - crucially on abortion - to justify support for Respect obliges its executive to immediately make its position absolutely clear. The suggestion of waiting till after the June 10 elections for an autumn conference is a nonsense - there can be no fudging on this issue: people have the right to know what they are voting for.

Respect’s founding declaration is for “the right for self-determination for every individual in relation to their religious (or non-religious) beliefs, as well as sexual choices”. Most in and around Respect would have regarded this as a fairly routine defence of basic democratic rights, not least those relating to a women’s control over her own fertility. Yet after comrade Galloway’s interview and its subsequent welcome by MAB it is clear that this formulation needs clarification.



http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/527/01openletter.html

[glitch]

39. Then I hope he is adamantly for planned parenthood and birth control pills

or depo provera. Best anti-abortion tools out there, so far.

[Cha]

4. The anti-war party candidate!

"The lawmaker was re-elected to parliament this month as a representative of his own anti-war party Respect after being expelled from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party over his opposition to the war in Iraq. He said he plans to publish a book about his victory in the previously safe Labour seat of Bethnal Green and Bow in east London."

Galloway needs to watch his back..he is the bushtoids worst nightmare!

[Algorem]

5. They were mentioning Galloway story on PBS Newshour right now

but was short report thing

[cal04]

6. Galloway Celebrates 'A Blessing in Disguise'

Respect MP George Galloway said tonight he had “never considered” his name needed clearing following accusations he profited from Iraq oil dealings. Mr Galloway said his appearance in front of a US Senate committee last week had led to a “transformation of the situation”. Speaking as he launched a new publishing venture, Friction Books, with his friend Ron McKay, he said he had received 15,000 e-mails of support and countless letters.

The former Labour MP travelled to Washington after senators accused him of receiving credit to buy Iraqi oil. He has always said the evidence against him is false. Tonight, he said: “I never considered my name needed clearing.
“I’ve had 15,000 e-mails which have got to be some kind of parliamentary record. “My office is an inch deep in unopened envelopes. My phone has been ringing off the hook. “My appearance at the Senate has been a bit of a transformation of the situation. “As Oscar Wilde said ’sometimes the most bitter trials turn out to be blessings in disguise.”’

He said the US was the real criminal over the war in Iraq. “They think that they rule the world and that everyone is afraid of them. “But I’m not afraid of them and neither are the millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of people around the world who feel the same way as me. “We feel that the real criminals are them.”

Mr Galloway plans to publish a book in the summer called The Battle of Bethnal Green about the campaign that led him to take the Labour safe seat of Bethnal Green and Bow in east London in the General Election. Speaking at the Preem and Priphi restaurant in Brick Lane, east London, where he held his Respect victory party, he said the area was now a “liberated zone”. He said he had not seen prime minister Tony Blair since he won the constituency seat. “My relationship with Tony Blair was not good when I was in the Labour Party so I don’t expect it to be any better now.”

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4609916

[Coexist]

7. Good for you, Georgeous!

Please come here for your book signing tour. Florida is just heavenly in March and April.

[DulceDecorum]

8. I like that man.

I really really like him.

[rurallib]

9. God, I'd love to see him on O'Reilly or Hannity

He'd rip 'em a new brain hole.

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. They wouldn't dare have him on with them - they know they couldn't

bully him, and he would use the opportunity to tell the truth. They would be shown to be the corupt fools they are, and more people would start asking the iimportant questions. Nope, they'd run and hide from him.

The Dems really need to taking notes: Galloway's Way To Face The Neocons 101.

[CottonBear]

16. You are right. Faux won't touch him with a 10 foor pole.

They will, in fact, ignore him because he'll be talking about the memo of which they do not speak.

[Nothing Without Hope]

10. I also want to hear him saying not that "The US is the criminal" but that

the GOVERNMENT of the US is. Bush was never elected, that is one of the crimes. The people of the US for the most part do NOT support what he has done, and more would oppose it if the media were not collaborating with the fascist criminals to suppress the truth and spread propaganda.

I don't want the world to hate ALL Americans. It's the bushies that need to be marginalized, removed from power, and punished for what they have done. I'm afraid that Horrible George has blackened the reputation of our nation as a whole.

[CJCRANE]

12. Quote:

"He said the US was the real criminal over the war in Iraq". The article doesn't use his exact words so it's possible he said "neocons" or similar and the reporter simplified it.

[lonestarnot]

18. As you should be as he has...

[JohnyCanuck]

17. Bush cronies and family paid kickbacks to Saddam

Committee documents show Bush political friends and family paid Oil-for-Food kickbacks to Saddam Hussein

By Wayne Madsen

<snip>

Minority report documents indicate that one of the largest recipients of Bayoil Iraqi oil shipments was Enron, the bankrupt company that served as a virtual slush fund for the political campaigns of George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

<snip>

At the same time Enron Chairman Kenneth ("Kenny Boy") Lay was involved in Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force secret dealings and when he was stuffing hundreds of thousands of dollars into the pockets of George W. Bush and Cheney's political campaign, he also managed to illegally stick $206, 757 into the pockets of Saddam Hussein and his cohorts.

The Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal also involves one of the Bush children—Dorothy "Doro" Bush Koch, sister of George W. Bush and married to Bobby Koch, reportedly a cousin in the oil industry Koch family, the owner of Koch Industries, which is also one of Bush's largest political donors. The minority committee report indicates that Koch Industries was also a major recipient of illegal Iraqi oil and a huge source of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein:

<snip>

George Galloway was correct when he called the Coleman Committee the "mother of all smoke screens." Major political contributors and friends of Bush not only paid illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein but personally profited from sanctions-busting with Iraq. Those involved in the scheme included individuals who date back to the Reagan/Bush 41 "cluster bombs and biological and chemical weapons-for-oil" scandal of the 1980s. Galloway is correct when he stated that there is enough evidence on Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair and their neocon advisers to park them in prison cells in The Hague for an awfully long time.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052105Madsen/052105madsen.html

[Briar]

13. Outspoken?

Strange how when someone tells the truth they get called that. I'd rather have one outspoken person than a whole senate full of mealy mouthed compromisers afraid of jeopardising their careers.

[CottonBear]

14. Hot damn! I hope that he comes to the Southeast.

:woohoo:

[Dover]

''...captured headlines"??? n/t

!

[Dover]

19. ''...captured headlines"??? While it was hard to stifle this story, the

U.S. press did their damnedest to keep it off the front page.

Glad to hear he's making the rounds anyway! That's one way to circumvent a broken communications web...just show up in person!

[daleo]

20. The defamation will begin in earnest.

He is dangerous to the BFEE so we will hear about:
- how much money he is getting for speaking (implication being he is doing it for the money).
- anyone he has ever had any connection to that doesn't come off well (guilt by association).
- any statement he has made in his life that can be construed as anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, etc. (regardless of how out of context the statement is).
- generally, any mistake he has ever made in his private life that can be dug up (divorces, affairs, etc.)

[malaise]

21. Who will provide his

security????

[daleo]

22. If he's lucky, it won't be the U.S. government.

He should do his best to be as visible as possible at all times. And fly on crowded flights. His best protection is lots of witnesses.

[DearAbby]

23. How refreshing to actually have the truth spoken...As it was before the

Committee...Americans need to hear what this man has to say...Exactly what the MOTHER OF ALL SMOKESCREENS is, Is that a fresh breeze blowing across the country? Just a small whif of fresh air, ahhhhhhh but it has been long in coming.

Hope he speaks in Denver area. :::fingers crossed:::

[chknltl]

28. Greek Women

he admits to liking them in more than the biblical sense....wish I still had that link, his detractors were trying to pin a scandal on him when he admitted to it, thereby diffusing said scandal with reality! I REALLY like this guy, he is still tops on my all time hero list

[daleo]

32. Bet you he would have loved Lysistrata. n/t

[staticstopper]

24. Outspoken U.K. Lawmaker to Tour U.S.

As Oscar Wilde said, sometimes the most bitter trials turn out to be blessings in disguise," Galloway said Thursday. "In America, people pay huge sums of money to hear you speak."

Galloway said his talks would focus on America "and the way in which the United States has dragged us into disaster."

"They think they rule the world and everyone is afraid of them. But I'm not afraid," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050526/ap_on_re_eu/britain_galloway_1

[leftchick]

25. I Wonder How Many US News Shows Will Have Him On?

<chirping crickets> :eyes:


Please Come to NC George!

:loveya:

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. How do I book him for an engagement?

Boy what I wouldn't love to hear him speak!

[Straight Shooter]

27. Sir Galloway, over here, in the Northwest. Oh, please ...

We'll roll out the red *cough* BLUE CARPET for you. :7

[UrbScotty]

30. I heard part of his interview with Hartmann

He is good, isn't he?

[0007]

33. Norm Coleman is still smarting from the tongue lashing

George Galloway gave him.

[leesa]

34. Aw, bless his heart. I hope people are ready to hear him...finally!

[osaMABUSh]

35. Forget the Stones. Galloway is the hottest Brit ticket in the States

But, of course, Bono and the boys from Ireland are right up there.

[Voltaire99]

36. Come to Minneapolis, George!

This tour will do wonders for those of us who feel without representation here in the US.

Come show our whelps how it's done, George!

[burrowowl]

37. Hope he comes to

UNM!

[ToeBot]

40. He'll be earning every dime, or pound.

Given Galloway's temperament and the atmosphere on campus's these days, his engagements will likely turn ugly. I would hope that the liberals and Dem's will make a good showing, I'm sure the College Republicans will.

[Hand]

41. Pack your Kevlar and don't fly in small planes... nt