Friday 30th June - Galloway Trucking in Hull (6/8) By Martin J Deane George Galloway Photographs by Ben Gurevitch

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People will hurt us Today we see plainly, that a kidnapped Israeli is worth 500 Palestinians! [Jun 2006: Israeli soldier taken prisoner by Palestinian forces leading to all out assault on Palestinain government by Israeli military] The British victims of 7-7 [London Bombings of 7.7.05] were remembered in a recent memorial service. On that same day 2 houses in Iraq - 2 houses - were destroyed with 39 people mutilated to death. Arab TV showed these atrocities, even though it didn't make British news. Women and children without heads being dragged from the buildings. Decapitated by the effects of the bombs. If we are at the root of inspiring such hatred then people will hurt us.

The Acts of Empire These are the Acts of Empire. We will pay a high price for this. Before 9/11- thousands of Americans were unaware that anyone hated them. This is like when the British reached Bengal it was the richest place in the world. When the British left it was the poorest place in the world! I remember when I was young something we learnt at school. I told my grandfather how our teacher had said the sun never set on the British Empire. My grandfather said it to me that's because God would never trust the English in the dark!

Intervention and Zimbabwe Who are we to intervene? We have no responsibility nor the right. Not us. We are the one people who supported apartheid! We used to run Rhodesia when it was white! Any intervention that there may be, anywhere, should be local and have an international consensus. There is no right to intervening. Notice it is not called invading. Call it what it is! In these circumstances, ask yourselves Will it be better or worse? The doctors say the operation was a great success but the patient died! There is no God given right to sort out other countries! Sweden doesn't do it. They're too busy sorting out Sweden! We should be sorting out Britain!

Intervention and the Kurds In the 1980s at the actual time of these atrocities I was the person campaigning AGAINST Saddam. When I was demonstrating outside the Iraqi embassy I was the only MP there. Are you saying, now, that because he killed 4,000 Kurds 15 yrs ago we should kill 150,000 Iraqis today? I say No. This is the way of Empire. Massacres will be the order of the day, such as we are seeing.

What about fighting against Hitler? Yes. Intervention against Hitler was right. If I was there I'd have been campaigning for it. Chamberlain was an appeaser. The people got Chamberlain out and Churchill in. Without Churchill we would have lost the war and I'd be speaking to you here in German tonight! Chamberlain ran a phony war. Even the Duke of Windsor was a closet Nazi! Latin America - In Bolivia, the Bechtel water company was thrown out by the people. The ordinary people are emboldened by the complete failure of the American invasion of Iraq. It was quite possible that America would have invaded Venezuela but for that. Now no-one in the American government would agree to another invasion.

A real traitor I'm often called a traitor in The Sun. But if you want a real traitor it's Blair. He says he is surprised by the ferocity of the resistance. Well he wasn't surprised at all! I told him exactly what would happen: car bombs, murder, chaos. Talking to him, it's like talking to Rory Bremner! He told me, Look, George, it's worse than that... He has a list of countries that he wants to intervene in: Burma, Zimbabwe...

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