Watching this, I'm reminded of a quote from Churchill: "You can always count on the Americas to do the right thing ... after they've tried everything else"
Don't presume to teach this Injun the Queen's English!I learnt it and not picked it up off the street like your countrymen. And Galloway is prophetic - has the emergence of ISIS totally evaded you? Something Galloway predicted years back. I don't whether to laugh or cry at your monumentally pathetic ignorance! Get an education if you still can. And I'm not your "pal". A slight case of manners also needs improvement in addition to the aforementioned lack of education.
Anando Mukerjee The only reason Galloway is interested in the middle east is because he was taking backhanders from Sadam and other dictators . He is a narcissistic personality disorder who likes the sound of his own voice as despicable as it is . Here are some facts for your misguided education. You know nothing about this pathetic little man and it is you who needs an education After Galloway cobbled together his own "Respect Party" from a disgraced and rotten British far-left group in coalition with Britain's Islamist far-right, he took his seat in the House of Commons as a Respect MP by defeating the progressive Labour MP Oona King (whose downfall was by no means unrelated to the fact she was born of a Black father and a Jewish mother) in the constituency of Bethnall Green and Bow. Galloway was later suspended from the House of Commons for 18 days after Parliamentary anti-sleaze watchdogs found him guilty of not disclosing his links with Saddam Hussein's regime and "strong circumstantial evidence" that he'd connived with Iraq's Baathist dictatorship to rip off the UN's Iraqi oil-for-food program. The devious attention seeker makes all his own problems by sticking his nose into things that don’t concern him, He has constantly neglected the people of Bradford who voted for him and the British taxpayer who pays his wages while he is flying half way round the world to spend time with communist dictator Hugo Chavez during his election in Venezuela. Or on some Middle Eastern TV channel spouting his anti-British hate inciting Muslims. Galloway needs it drumming into his head that just because a lot of his voters were Muslims, it doesn’t mean he is to police all the worlds Arab/Muslim problems when he is getting paid to be in the British Parliament. Today we unmask the thugs behind Respect in Bradford. Each and every one of them caught in the act of threatening and abusing people who disagree with the view of Respect on Twitter. They are so paranoid they think the only people who could possibly disagree with them are ex-Respect members and the Labour Party. GALLOWAY THE TRAITOR Foreign Office Minister Ben Bradshaw launched an astonishing attack on the Labour MP George Galloway calling him an "apologist and a mouthpiece" for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. It was one of the most dramatic confrontations Parliament has seen for a long time. Galloway immediately jumped to his feet shouting "Liar". To say I am a "mouthpiece" for "a dictator", he said, his orator's voice trembling with emotion, is to impugn "my honour". George Galloway's voice and manner on this occasion brought vividly to my mind a scene recorded by the BBC cameras in Iraq eight years ago. In January 1994 Galloway, his voice vibrating with deep feeling, his body language and manner strongly suggestive of awe and respect, stood before the Iraqi Hitler, Saddam Hussein, in a Baghdad palace and praised his courage, strength and indefatigability. "Sir," said Galloway, standing within smelling distance of the mass murderer, "Sir…- we salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability". Galloway was one of a delegation of European MPs who took it on themselves to present Saddam Hussein with a pennant from Palestinian youth in the Israeli-occupied territory, from which they had just come. Having praised "Sir's" courage, strength and indefatigability, Galloway went on to inform Saddam Hussein that the people he had visited in Palestine were naming their children after him. And not only were the Palestinians with him. Galloway ended his speech with the words: "We are with you," and then some words in Arabic, which the BBC translated as "Until victory! Until Jerusalem!" This was not quite three years after Saddam Hussein had rocketed bombs on Israel during the Gulf War, and used poison gas against Iraq's Kurdish people. The left-wing paper Socialist Organiser, in an article entitled 'The Old Left Continues to Rot', described Galloway's performance as "the latest putrescent manifestation" of the decay of the left, and advocated George Galloway's expulsion from the Labour Party. Afterwards, Galloway tried to insist that his words were addressed not to the mass murderer in whose presence he stood, but as a salutation to the Iraqi people. Galloway then, under pressure, admitted that the words which began with "Sir", were addressed to the "indefatigable" and "strong" butcher. In the House of Commons on 6 March, Galloway's voice trembled not with awe and respect in the presence of "your courage, your strength, your indefatigability",as he describes SADAM but with anger and indignation at being called an apologist for the courageous, strong and indefatigable Saddam Hussein. The same Sadam who gasses thousands of Kurds . NICE MAN ISNT HE ? AND YOU RESPECT HIM!!
+John Walton They blame their leadership....thats why we have ISIS imposed by the Isreali Intelligence Secret Service parading as the creme de la creme of Freedom Fighters. Muslim countries have never bombed a western country...can you count how many bombs western countries have dropped on Muslim countries over the last 100 years....Jeez do ya think thats why they happy in other peoples lands.
they were not the only ones. i remember watching an interview with john major 3 days before the war started. he predicted everything that has happened since. it seems the only two people who did not worry about the problems were blair and bush.
Fascinating viewing. No wonder people dislike George Galloway. The bastard's right on everything! His opponents are furious with him on this table, but they look ridiculous now in hindsight. George wipes the floor with them, even though he's outnumbered. Hope you live to 200 George!
+UA-cam Persian Resistance She is such a beautiful woman, both inside and out. She was a beacon of hope in a very dark region. Rest in peace and glory Benazir.
amazing to see how out of touch some people can be and so right others can be around this table. portillo is deluded but i like the fact he puts himself on the line. george was on form at this point in the debate.
Galloway is a first class lefty nutter, but he was spot on regarding Iraq
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BBC show broadcast in March 2003. Michael Portillo discusses America & Iraq with Benazir Bhutto, George Galloway, Jean-Pierre Langellier, Robert McGeehan, Rosemary Righter, Jackie Ashley and Rana Kabbani.
I'm very much on the right and I quite like Portillo - he's sound on many issues and I find him to be a likeable TV personality - but on this issue I disagree with almost everything he said (and did at the time too). He shows some remarkable naivety towards the end of this discussion. Galloway was right throughout the whole Iraq shambles; I distinctly remember his blistering rhetoric in news interviews at the time and found myself agreeing with him completely. He was one of the few politicians at the time in the UK who opposed, very forcefully, the invasion of Iraq and was willing to make his case even when public opinion at the time was very much not in his favour (that soon changed of course, shortly after the invasion, once it became clear what a total clusterfuck the whole thing had become). Galloway often keeps bad company, and he has a soft spot for communism that I find detestable, but on Iraq and UK foreign policy generally (including the EU) he's remarkably sound. He's also a great orator, although in recent years he's become too full of himself and is a bit of a parody, in contrast to how he is here - brutally to the point, with great rhetoric. I've always been of the opinion that in the modern world the UK should never go to war except to defend ourselves/our territory (as with the Falkland Islands) or a close ally who is being invaded and has called on us for help. The Iraq war only helped cement that view in my mind, and I think it also led many on the right in the UK to come around to that way of thinking (just as it did in the US, with Ron Paul and then Trump supporters often being very anti-war, especially pre-emptive war).
Among all Portillo's wildly incorrect predictions in this programme, the only one he got right was the one with which he wraps up at the end. They were all judged by the positions they took for or against the Iraq war. Those who got it wrong have had long and successful careers in the media. Portillo himself is scarecely off our screens. Of those who got it right, Bhuto was assassinated for opposing Pakistan's military dictatorship. Galloway has been thrown out of Parliament, beaten up by right wing thugs and pushed to the margins by a media culture that finds his views unacceptable. Iraq remains an important litmus test. You simply can't afford to have been right. Look at Bernie Sanders!
What a laugh listening to the host about his "hopes" of what will follow the US invading Iraq - around the 28 min mark of the clip. Talk of people having no connection with reality.
On balance, good points and accuracy on both sides here. Galloway and Kabbani correctly predicted the sectarian warfare and chaos that ensued in Iraq, probably because they better appreciate how bloodthirsty Islamic belief is when it wields political power (though they of course would never say that). Portillo is right on the history of the US' successful interventions, which the leftists ignore, and he was right in ways with how he thought the Iraq intervention would go: the actual invasion was very quick and successful, and a democratic election was held, and continue to be held. Iraq continues to face serious problems with a civil war which is killing many and prevents its economy from growing The belligerents of the war are Sunni Muslims ISIS supporters on one side, and Kurdish Peshmerga, Turkmen Muslim, Shia Muslims, Assyrian Christians, Yezidis, Shabakis, and Armenian Christians on the other side. ISIS were welcomed into many regions they took over by Sunni Muslims in Iraq, and it is worth noting that ISIS' roots can be traced back to a Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who pledged allegiance to Bin Laden and formed Al Qaeda in Iraq - this shows that the origins of the movement are not an Iraqi "we want America out" sentiment, but a banding together of Islamic Jihadist ideology across the Muslim world. Two things seem clear to me: 1. That there is quite enough Sunni Jihadism in the world 2. The coalition of minority forces that oppose ISIS living in a democratic state is preferable to the rule of Saddam. With this in mind, I think that the coalition of minorities in Iraq and the Iraqi government need more support in fighting ISIS, and we should focus on that rather than arguing about whether or not the US-led intervention was a good idea in the first place - it's done now, we need to move forward.
Even without the benefit of hindsight, Portillo's "predictions" for the outcome of the Iraq invasion (27:50) are so laughable that it makes one cringe at the thought that he ever held high office. Oh well, never mind. While countless Iraqis continue to deal with the consequences to this day, he has managed to reinvent himself as a suave old gent on the BBC who potters about looking at trains.
"It might very well sink the political career of Tony Blair." -George Galloway
+Jorge Daniel Hernandez Really? Who is speaking at 12:57?
+Citizen20 Twenty - wow my mistake! I could have sworn Portillo was the one who said that.
Watching this, I'm reminded of a quote from Churchill: "You can always count on the Americas to do the right thing ... after they've tried everything else"
Honestly I loved the civility and discipline of the disputant despite the divisiveness of the issue at all level.
Galloway is prophetic! Unbelievable.
Good idea to put it here so that the while world can watch it and listen to it.
+Anando Mukerjee I THINK YOU MEANT TO SAY GALLOWAY IS PATHETIC --BRUSH UP ON YOUR ENGLISH PAL
Don't presume to teach this Injun the Queen's English!I learnt it and not picked it up off the street like your countrymen. And Galloway is prophetic - has the emergence of ISIS totally evaded you? Something Galloway predicted years back. I don't whether to laugh or cry at your monumentally pathetic ignorance! Get an education if you still can. And I'm not your "pal". A slight case of manners also needs improvement in addition to the aforementioned lack of education.
Anando Mukerjee The only reason Galloway is interested in the middle east is because he was taking backhanders from Sadam and other dictators . He is a narcissistic personality disorder who likes the sound of his own voice as despicable as it is .
Here are some facts for your misguided education. You know nothing about this pathetic little man and it is you who needs an education
After Galloway cobbled together his own "Respect Party" from a disgraced and rotten British far-left group in coalition with Britain's Islamist far-right, he took his seat in the House of Commons as a Respect MP by defeating the progressive Labour MP Oona King (whose downfall was by no means unrelated to the fact she was born of a Black father and a Jewish mother) in the constituency of Bethnall Green and Bow. Galloway was later suspended from the House of Commons for 18 days after Parliamentary anti-sleaze watchdogs found him guilty of not disclosing his links with Saddam Hussein's regime and "strong circumstantial evidence" that he'd connived with Iraq's Baathist dictatorship to rip off the UN's Iraqi oil-for-food program.
The devious attention seeker makes all his own problems by sticking his nose into things that don’t concern him, He has constantly neglected the people of Bradford who voted for him and the British taxpayer who pays his wages while he is flying half way round the world to spend time with communist dictator Hugo Chavez during his election in Venezuela. Or on some Middle Eastern TV channel spouting his anti-British hate inciting Muslims. Galloway needs it drumming into his head that just because a lot of his voters were Muslims, it doesn’t mean he is to police all the worlds Arab/Muslim problems when he is getting paid to be in the British Parliament.
Today we unmask the thugs behind Respect in Bradford. Each and every one of them caught in the act of threatening and abusing people who disagree with the view of Respect on Twitter. They are so paranoid they think the only people who could possibly disagree with them are ex-Respect members and the Labour Party.
GALLOWAY THE TRAITOR
Foreign Office Minister Ben Bradshaw launched an astonishing attack on the Labour MP George Galloway calling him an "apologist and a mouthpiece" for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.
It was one of the most dramatic confrontations Parliament has seen for a long time. Galloway immediately jumped to his feet shouting "Liar". To say I am a "mouthpiece" for "a dictator", he said, his orator's voice trembling with emotion, is to impugn "my honour".
George Galloway's voice and manner on this occasion brought vividly to my mind a scene recorded by the BBC cameras in Iraq eight years ago.
In January 1994 Galloway, his voice vibrating with deep feeling, his body language and manner strongly suggestive of awe and respect, stood before the Iraqi Hitler, Saddam Hussein, in a Baghdad palace and praised his courage, strength and indefatigability.
"Sir," said Galloway, standing within smelling distance of the mass murderer, "Sir…- we salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability".
Galloway was one of a delegation of European MPs who took it on themselves to present Saddam Hussein with a pennant from Palestinian youth in the Israeli-occupied territory, from which they had just come.
Having praised "Sir's" courage, strength and indefatigability, Galloway went on to inform Saddam Hussein that the people he had visited in Palestine were naming their children after him. And not only were the Palestinians with him.
Galloway ended his speech with the words: "We are with you," and then some words in Arabic, which the BBC translated as "Until victory! Until Jerusalem!"
This was not quite three years after Saddam Hussein had rocketed bombs on Israel during the Gulf War, and used poison gas against Iraq's Kurdish people.
The left-wing paper Socialist Organiser, in an article entitled 'The Old Left Continues to Rot', described Galloway's performance as "the latest putrescent manifestation" of the decay of the left, and advocated George Galloway's expulsion from the Labour Party.
Afterwards, Galloway tried to insist that his words were addressed not to the mass murderer in whose presence he stood, but as a salutation to the Iraqi people. Galloway then, under pressure, admitted that the words which began with "Sir", were addressed to the "indefatigable" and "strong" butcher.
In the House of Commons on 6 March, Galloway's voice trembled not with awe and respect in the presence of "your courage, your strength, your indefatigability",as he describes SADAM but with anger and indignation at being called an apologist for the courageous, strong and indefatigable Saddam Hussein. The same Sadam who gasses thousands of Kurds .
NICE MAN ISNT HE ? AND YOU RESPECT HIM!!
+John Walton They blame their leadership....thats why we have ISIS imposed by the Isreali Intelligence Secret Service parading as the creme de la creme of Freedom Fighters. Muslim countries have never bombed a western country...can you count how many bombs western countries have dropped on Muslim countries over the last 100 years....Jeez do ya think thats why they happy in other peoples lands.
WOW George Galloway and the left wingers around the table were spot on with their predictions!
they were not the only ones. i remember watching an interview with john major 3 days before the war started. he predicted everything that has happened since.
it seems the only two people who did not worry about the problems were blair and bush.
***** Would love to see this interview, is it available online?
Galloway and Corbyn are always on the correct side of history........
Galloway is a true leftist, not a Trotskyite like Corbyn.
@@supra1722 P.O.V.: You do not understand leftist ideology
Love it when the brunette told the blonde I rather you didn't interrupt me if you don't mind. That was awesome
Fascinating viewing. No wonder people dislike George Galloway. The bastard's right on everything! His opponents are furious with him on this table, but they look ridiculous now in hindsight. George wipes the floor with them, even though he's outnumbered. Hope you live to 200 George!
george galloways was right as always! God bless him . Benazir Butto rest in heaven.
+UA-cam Persian Resistance She is such a beautiful woman, both inside and out. She was a beacon of hope in a very dark region. Rest in peace and glory Benazir.
Yep, she was as hot as fuck.
amazing to see how out of touch some people can be and so right others can be around this table. portillo is deluded but i like the fact he puts himself on the line. george was on form at this point in the debate.
I think George is spot on! He hammered the right wing press and politicians on the table.
George is as good as Nostradamus in predicting the outcomes in the Middle East
Galloway is a first class lefty nutter, but he was spot on regarding Iraq
BBC show broadcast in March 2003. Michael Portillo discusses America & Iraq with Benazir Bhutto, George Galloway, Jean-Pierre Langellier, Robert McGeehan, Rosemary Righter, Jackie Ashley and Rana Kabbani.
when was this filmed? what year?
George Galloway
Galloway is a giant!
No wonder the world is going from bad to worst because of people like Portillo and am afraid they are quite few of them very sad
I wonder what Portillo thinks if he ever revisits this.
great idea and great guests,im jealous well done.
George was right...
I'm very much on the right and I quite like Portillo - he's sound on many issues and I find him to be a likeable TV personality - but on this issue I disagree with almost everything he said (and did at the time too). He shows some remarkable naivety towards the end of this discussion.
Galloway was right throughout the whole Iraq shambles; I distinctly remember his blistering rhetoric in news interviews at the time and found myself agreeing with him completely. He was one of the few politicians at the time in the UK who opposed, very forcefully, the invasion of Iraq and was willing to make his case even when public opinion at the time was very much not in his favour (that soon changed of course, shortly after the invasion, once it became clear what a total clusterfuck the whole thing had become).
Galloway often keeps bad company, and he has a soft spot for communism that I find detestable, but on Iraq and UK foreign policy generally (including the EU) he's remarkably sound. He's also a great orator, although in recent years he's become too full of himself and is a bit of a parody, in contrast to how he is here - brutally to the point, with great rhetoric.
I've always been of the opinion that in the modern world the UK should never go to war except to defend ourselves/our territory (as with the Falkland Islands) or a close ally who is being invaded and has called on us for help. The Iraq war only helped cement that view in my mind, and I think it also led many on the right in the UK to come around to that way of thinking (just as it did in the US, with Ron Paul and then Trump supporters often being very anti-war, especially pre-emptive war).
good show
Portillo really is clueless here...
so is Bhutto!
George Galloway, bon appétit 👍
HAHA PORTILLO LOOKS A FOOL NOW
George galloway is always right
I bet there was some Alka seltzer taken after that meal
lol lol lol lol lol
But how was the food?
lovely wig
Iraq 🇮🇶 is a democracy today it worked no more civil unrest
Among all Portillo's wildly incorrect predictions in this programme, the only one he got right was the one with which he wraps up at the end. They were all judged by the positions they took for or against the Iraq war.
Those who got it wrong have had long and successful careers in the media. Portillo himself is scarecely off our screens.
Of those who got it right, Bhuto was assassinated for opposing Pakistan's military dictatorship. Galloway has been thrown out of Parliament, beaten up by right wing thugs and pushed to the margins by a media culture that finds his views unacceptable.
Iraq remains an important litmus test. You simply can't afford to have been right. Look at Bernie Sanders!
More wine anyone...
George predicted ISIS
Portillo was wrong about practically everything!
Parliament even Obama said bushs iraq war successes several times
Invented Bin Laden? What was he, the Terminator or something?
Tim Osmond = Bin Laden a CIA asset
Has Michael Portillo ever been right about anything, ever?
well thus is unpleasant viewing!
Galloway very prescient at 16:00
Poor benazhir Bhutto
What a laugh listening to the host about his "hopes" of what will follow the US invading Iraq - around the 28 min mark of the clip. Talk of people having no connection with reality.
On balance, good points and accuracy on both sides here. Galloway and Kabbani correctly predicted the sectarian warfare and chaos that ensued in Iraq, probably because they better appreciate how bloodthirsty Islamic belief is when it wields political power (though they of course would never say that). Portillo is right on the history of the US' successful interventions, which the leftists ignore, and he was right in ways with how he thought the Iraq intervention would go: the actual invasion was very quick and successful, and a democratic election was held, and continue to be held.
Iraq continues to face serious problems with a civil war which is killing many and prevents its economy from growing The belligerents of the war are Sunni Muslims ISIS supporters on one side, and Kurdish Peshmerga, Turkmen Muslim, Shia Muslims, Assyrian Christians, Yezidis, Shabakis, and Armenian Christians on the other side. ISIS were welcomed into many regions they took over by Sunni Muslims in Iraq, and it is worth noting that ISIS' roots can be traced back to a Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who pledged allegiance to Bin Laden and formed Al Qaeda in Iraq - this shows that the origins of the movement are not an Iraqi "we want America out" sentiment, but a banding together of Islamic Jihadist ideology across the Muslim world. Two things seem clear to me: 1. That there is quite enough Sunni Jihadism in the world 2. The coalition of minority forces that oppose ISIS living in a democratic state is preferable to the rule of Saddam. With this in mind, I think that the coalition of minorities in Iraq and the Iraqi government need more support in fighting ISIS, and we should focus on that rather than arguing about whether or not the US-led intervention was a good idea in the first place - it's done now, we need to move forward.
Is your armchair comfortable?
Oh dear Lord. What a waste of good food.
Portillo called Afghanistan a success story!!🙄
Even without the benefit of hindsight, Portillo's "predictions" for the outcome of the Iraq invasion (27:50) are so laughable that it makes one cringe at the thought that he ever held high office.
Oh well, never mind. While countless Iraqis continue to deal with the consequences to this day, he has managed to reinvent himself as a suave old gent on the BBC who potters about looking at trains.
galloway and the ranaa lady absolutely nail it here.... but he does deny praising saddam in person and that is just wrong
Utter propaganda
Every time Galloway speaks all i see is a cat.
What year was this filmed?
Jimnik088 2002 I think