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| Galloway Warns Iraq War First Step |
| 2002-12-20 |
| Asking the Arab public opinion to stand up before another puppet president or corrupt king is installed in Iraq, whose wealth will be devoured by foreign governments, and asking the British government to renege on its obvious falsehoods, George Galloway (Whacko Party-Baghdad) warned of another Sykes-Picot against the Arab world. The clandestine understanding was concluded between Great Britain and France in May 1916, with the assent of Russia, for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement, which took its name from its negotiators Sir Mark Sykes and Georges Picot, led to the division of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine into various French and British-administered areas. They named them, ummm... Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. How 'bout dat? But the Turkish governers were replaced by locals, and high commissioners were appointed to try and keep them honest. Worked well, didn't it? "If you don’t want another century of slavery, of weakness and division, then you will have to stand up now because in the building I work in in London [i.e., Parliament], foreigners who have never set foot in the Arab world, who know nothing of you, are deciding to make new countries," said Galloway, senior vice chairman at the Parliamentary Labor Party. And one helluva patriot, by gum! They "are deciding to break old countries, and are deciding to appoint new corrupt kings and puppet presidents whose tasks will be to rule their countries in the interest of Britain and America rather than in the interest of their own people," he stressed. Unlike the present corrupt kings and puppet presidents, who rule their countries in the interests of ummm... themselves. To the standing ovation of Arab and foreign participants in the International Campaign Against U.S. Aggression on Iraq (ICCA), hosted by Cairo on December 18-19, Galloway said "we are now at the eleventh hour, there is not much time for meetings like this, there is not much time for conferences and declarations... Action speaks louder than words." "So let's get those mobs out!" He added that the aircraft carriers are already in the Gulf, 60,000 American soldiers are already in the Gulf, and thousands of British soldiers are on their way. "A few rubber boats full of explosives..." "There were half a million "We're having lunch. Want some of this hummus? It's really good..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 So the Sykes-Picot pact was bad because it randomly carved up the Ottoman Empire. So why is this guy defending the current national boundaries if they were just decided by two guys in a back room somewhere? |
| Posted by: Ruprecht 2002-12-20 12:38:06 |