The Sun came out with the video the day Galloway faced being voted off Britain's Celebrity Big Brother (turns out he was).
Much has been blogged of Galloway's freakish antics on the reality show. But a visit to the Sun's website reveals just how depraved this man is. Londoner Laurence Krieger writes, "Ever the self- pompous egotist, he had no qualms about telling Rula in the Big Brother house: “Ordinary Iraqis liked Saddam and his regime."
Actually, it's not what Galloway said but, clearly and unmistakably, it's what he meant.
Here's his exchange with fellow contestant Rula Lenska:
RL: Was he [Saddam] hated by the ordinary [Iraqi] people?
GG: Not at all; not at all...as is obvious now; now they admit that. He was hated by political opponents as he suppressed all opposition political forces, but he wasn't hated by the ordinary Iraqi - no, not at all.
"I know that George Galloway knows the truth, and that he is well aware of the [crimes] that Saddam perpetrated against his own people and against the neighboring countries. However, he turns a blind eye to them, because he wants to make the whole world turn a blind eye to them and to overlook the oil vouchers that he himself received from Saddam.
"I want to say: George Galloway, leader of the Respect party - you defend your friend and benefactor Saddam and you will yet be tried just like your friend and benefactor Saddam.
"I assure you that the Iraqi people will never turn a blind eye to those who robbed them. You robbed from all of the Iraqis what amounts to approximately 20 million barrels of oil [that you received] in exchange for misleading public opinion concerning the crimes perpetrated by Saddam against his people.
"I call on the Iraqi government to open the file on the Oil-for-Food scandal and file criminal indictments with international courts against those who benefited [from the oil vouchers] and those who stretched out their hands and took those vouchers from Saddam.
"May the first [to be indicted] be George Galloway…"
Galloway may face something a little more serious than the possibility of appearing before an international criminal court. He could end up in a British court.
The news out of London today is that he "faces the prospect of a criminal investigation into his activities by the serious fraud office" and a new "parliamentary investigation into allegations that Mr. Galloway broke House of Commons rules by failing to declare benefits he received from the Saddam regime."
