Galloway Wins against Western propaganda : Melbourne Indymedia

A collection of Documents reported by the paper, to have been uncovered during the early days of the illegal invasion of Iraq, named the politician as a financial benefactor paid directly by the Saddam regime in contravention of the UN sanctions bought against Iraq between 1991 and 2003.
It was further alleged by the newspaper that Galloway received a payment of 350 000 pounds annually to launch an unsuccessful anti sanctions campaign on behalf of Saddam during the blockade years of the war, in total Mr Galloway was alleged to have received Millions of pounds.
The authors and their employer of the falsified documents were not revealed in the libel case bought against the Telegraph by Mr Galloway. However it is assumed the documents were carefully designed to discredit anyone who opposed the deceptions to go to war.
Not only did the publication of the documents end the political career of the Labour Minister it also resulted in criminal charges against Mr Galloway. These criminal charges are now under review as questions are being asked about the role the government played in the "Galloway Affair".
Mr Galloway risked everything to prove his innocence, and was successful resulting in an award of 1.2 million pounds sterling in compensation.
After his success Mr Galloway said “the documents were either forgeries or they were doctored, but they were in any case fakes”
Mr Galloway was approached by the owners of the telegraph who offered to print a retraction to settle the dispute out of court, but he declined the offer, as the damage had already been done and the offer was made only when it seemed obvious that the telegraph was about to lose the case.
The judge Mr Justice Eady said it was a classic case of the print and be dammed
Galloway will stand as a RESPECT candidate in the next general election proudly supporting the new parties stand against the War in Iraq.

Thank God Mr Galloway lives in a country where the rule of western style law prevails.

Where an individual can take on the might of the western media.

And win.

Thank God for western justice systems like the UK's

It would never happen in America, the CIA are better liars than MI5

In Australia we just believe the lies.

"....the illegal invasion of Iraq...."

Simon, you are such a cack. Since when have you become such a stickler for the niceties of constitutional due process?

Normally with you lot it's "Smash the State" here, and "Rise up and overthrow the Government" there.

We're always being reminded how "democracy is just a sham", and even elected governments are just "fronts for capitalist exploiters", blah, blah, blah.

But at the precise moment some thug Fascist tyrant like Saddam Hussein gets toppled, it's "Oh dear. That's illegal."

Oh well - he'll get a fair trial I am sure. Or at any rate a lot more fair than Margaret Hassan or any of the thousands Saddam sent to the execution pit.

And they're having an election in Iraq, soon, too.

Hey, maybe a Socialist Party candidate will get elected to a Baghdad suburban Council just like in Yarra!!

LOL

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/84039.php

‘You are such a cack’, a what? a mack, whack, jack, dack sack???, I just can't get upset about this and I’ve tried.

Your team has to get away from this hypocrisy, its making you sick.

Spin was saying just the other day, that it’s perfectly alright to torture people because Saddam did it, and Murder Iraqis because they would have died under Saddam anyway.

He didn’t mention the sexual and indecent assaults but I know him, so I know he would like the Idea of that as well.

And now we don't have to worry any more because the Iraqi’s are getting a democracy just like ours, so the right wing tell us, like the Zimbabweans I wonder?
Or something similar to Afghanistan’s democratically controlled Kabul Car park?.

Green line democracy, sham

I’m so impressed with the right wing attempt so far.

This is what has been offered to Iraq

No taxation or representation,
No withdrawal of American troops
No opposition to American rule will be standing in forthcoming elections
Total control over Iraq’s media

Sorry ‘nobody’ I can't be bothered with your type anymore…your war has been lost, you represent a lie…your worst fears are realized…its Vietnam 2

All this While America supports a dictator twice as bad as Saddam in Uzbekistan.

Question for you right wing fool.

Is this true?

Members of The current interim government in Iraq gave sold and supplied the evidence of WMD to America prior to 2003, either while in the employ of the US secret service or as members of political opposition in exile.
That’s the president and the farther and son team who were running Saddam’s execution trail who are now wanted in Jordan over bank fraud charges.

It’s all going badly 87 attacks against troops, 1300 dead and George bush hasn’t even been to one funeral. Shame…give up your support and follow the 80% who said No War for Iraq’s Oil!!, remember that?from the voice of the people in our democracy? Representational?, yeah of GWB

"...Spin was saying just the other day, that it’s perfectly alright to torture people because Saddam did it..."

Gee? Really? Where did he say that?

Meanwhile....

"....A suicide car bomb ripped through a line of vehicles at a checkpoint outside Baghdad's international Green Zone, killing 13 people as Iraq marked the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture...."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/13-dead-in-Baghdad-suicide-car-blast/2004/12/13/1102787015181.html

"....Long live Saddam Hussein, the fighter, who is the Comrade Leader secretary general of the Region of Iraq [as distinct from the Syrian region], President of the Republic, symbol of courage, defying the jail camps, conceiver, engineer and planner of the Glorious Iraqi Armed Resistance!"

- The National Council for the Iraqi Resistance

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA19704

"....we have no choice now but to support the resistance, for if the resistance fails, the "Bush gang" will attack another country. If they succeed, a grievous blow will be suffered by the Bush gang. ..."

- John Pilger

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/568/568p10b.htm

"....Award-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, who will be presented this week with an Australian peace prize, has defended her views that people should join what she calls the Iraqi resistance....."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4C5CD85A-865E-4C1A-8FB1-2313C7722D3F.htm
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/568/568p10b.htm

"...Arundhati Roy: Why we should support Iraqi resistance..."

- Green Left Weekly

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/605/605p28.htm

"At least 45 people were killed, most of them children, and 200 wounded in a string of car bombings in and around Baghdad."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/30/1096527871021.html

"A militant Iraqi group said it had killed 12 Nepali hostages and showed pictures of one being beheaded and others being shot dead, the worst mass killing of captives since a wave of kidnappings erupted in April." blah blah blah...

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/31/1093938927391.html

"Why we support the Iraqi resistance..."

- Socialist Alliance election poster, 2004

"...Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has launched a massive campaign to encourage people to vote in Iraq's upcoming elections, determined to ensure that Shiites have a chance to win the power he believes rightfully belongs to the nation's majority Muslim sect....."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Shiite-leader-orders-followers-to-vote/2004/11/22/1100972329982.html

"....There are currently 1,000 Jewish soldiers in Fallujah. This is according to American sources. Among them are 37 rabbis. The rabbis raise the morale among the Jewish soldiers fighting in Fallujah. So America is fighting for Israel. It is not fighting for Iraq's oil, since it has been drilling it for some time....."

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SR82204

Why we support David Hicks.

"Afghanistan is in the middle of a very, very heavy war in the north, no waiting here. I have arranged to go directly to the front…."

- David Hicks

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1066793.htm

".....In his letters to his family, Hicks tells them his training in Pakistan and Afghanistan is designed to ensure "the Western-Jewish domination is finished, so we live under Muslim law again". He denounces the plots of the Jews to divide Muslims and make them think poorly of Osama bin Laden....."

http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/006229.php

"Free David Hicks!"

- Green Left Weekly

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/569/569p11.htm

"...."On this blessed day, a lion from the martyrs battalion struck a group of apostates and Americans in the Green Zone,'' al-Qaeda Organisation for Holy War in Iraq said in a statement posted on a website used by Islamists....."

http://smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/13-dead-in-Baghdad-suicide-car-blast/2004/12/13/1102787015181.html?oneclick=true

"...Spin was saying just the other day, that it’s perfectly alright to torture people because Saddam did it..."

Gee? Really? Where did he say that?
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No your quite right spin, you hide your self behind other people words because you’ve got nothing to say.

All you posts excuse the actions of right wing misadventure and you fail, every time.

Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussien.

You cannot stand by your own claims, you have no view, no opinion and no name, and therefore you have lost credibility, just like the evil you represent.

Here’s the stupidest comment I have read to date, but I like it nonetheless.

You cannot hope to fly without a left and a right wing.

You just fell to the ground.

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Galloway 's election bid slammed
by pat c Monday, Dec 13 2004, 11:33am
international / elections / other press

George Galloway's decision to stand for election in east London has been
criticised by Ken Livingstone. Mr Galloway, who was expelled from Labour for
comments about the Iraq war, is to contest the seat in Bethnal Green and Bow
for the Respect coalition. The mayor said by standing against sitting
politician Oona King he was simply targeting the wrong politician.
Mr Livingstone said: "If he is so upset about Iraq why not stand against Tony Blair, Geoff Hoon or Jack Straw? I don't see what George's problem is with one of (the only) two black women in parliament," he said.

Mr Galloway's party, Respect, has already proved popular in the constituency, topping the poll in the European elections in June and winning a by-election. Bethnal Green and Bow has a large Asian community which
amounts to just under 40% of the electorate - many of whom are anti war.

Mr Galloway announced he would stand in east London in the next general election after winning libel damages from the Daily Telegraph over claims he received money from Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

...""...Spin was saying just the other day, that it’s perfectly alright to torture people because Saddam did it..."

Simon. Just wondering. Could you show us where anyone said anything like this?

Just wondering. Because Spin says you are a stupid liar.

Where are the Human Shields when we could use them
by spinifex

Most of what spin says are cuts and pastes they are lies taken out of context misrepresentations and designed to give crediblility to deceptions, it is how he works, if you repeat the same lie often enough you get to resemble US forign policy.

For instance, because saddam lied so much and tried to decieve the UN over WMD the US was forced to invade.

Only problem was saddam never lied and did not decieve, but that doesnt seem to penetrate the spinefex smoke screen.

Yet I have told no lies, but you have to read between the lines as spinney writes.

Why we support the Iraqi Resistance
by Stop the Iraqi Elections Saturday December 11, 2004 at 12:25 AM

"A series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 41 people, among them 34 children.
The bombs were detonated as crowds were gathering to celebrate the opening of a water treatment plant and US soldiers were handing out sweets. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3702710.stm

"Militants surrounded a bus full of unarmed Iraqi contractors employed by American forces as they rode to work on Sunday morning and gunned down 17 of them. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/international/middleeast/06iraq.html?hp&ex=1102395600&en=b57da2448456b855&ei=5094&partner=homepage

"...Western-Jewish domination is finished, so we live under Muslim law again..."

- David Hicks, murderer, racist, left wing cult object

http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/006229.php

"....On the same day in Mosul, a suicide bomber in a sedan struck a convoy of Kurdish militiamen (the actual Iraqi resistance) near a US military base, killing at least 18 and wounding 15....."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Deadly-attacks-on-Iraqi-militias/2004/12/05/1102182161051.html

.."I am very happy America is here, I hope the people of Iraq understand that America is setting them free," he told me. ..."

- Sudanese refugee in Iraq

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/84329.php

"....Long live Saddam Hussein, the fighter, who is the Comrade Leader secretary general of the Region of Iraq [as distinct from the Syrian region], President of the Republic, symbol of courage, defying the jail camps, conceiver, engineer and planner of the Glorious Iraqi Armed Resistance!"...."

- statement from The National Council for the Iraqi Resistance

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA19704

Spinney must spend an awful lot of time on this to justify his view that if the insurgents can kill civilians then its alright for America to kill them as well.

Spin it would give you more credibility if you only used one name, that way your imaginary support group would vanish.