Results 1-20 of 76 for iraq speaker:George Galloway

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

George Galloway: ...for this inquiry proved that the Government just do not get it. When, in 2005, I was elected as the first left-of-Labour Member of Parliament in England for 60 years, I was elected because of Iraq. The Labour party's membership has halved because of Iraq. Millions of Labour voters have left them and new parties—some of the left and some of the right—are proliferating and...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

George Galloway: ...warning signal. They say that Chilcot can look at the scope for making people take oaths, but without oaths the whole thing is meaningless. Tony Blair is right that he answers questions on Iraq all the time. It is the truthfulness of the answers that is the problem, not the fact that he has the brass neck to answer. His problem is the punishment that he would have to face in this life if...

Somalia (Human Rights) (11 Jun 2008) has video

George Galloway: ...Addis Ababa? I am afraid that the answer is our old friend, our old acquaintance, the policy of "my enemy's enemy is my friend". The policy that has got us into so much trouble, from Afghanistan to Iraq and many other parts of the world, is what lies behind this obscene paradox. We are supporting the Ethiopian Government's occupation of Somalia because George Bush told us to: because...

Orders of the Day: Counter-Terrorism Bill (1 Apr 2008) has video

George Galloway: ...in Britain and, indeed, around the world. All young Muslims have to do to be radicalised is to switch on the television news and look at the pictures from Palestine, look at the pictures from Iraq and look at the double standards being employed by western statesmen in relation to those kinds of conflict. That is what is radicalising the young Muslims here and abroad, and it will not be...

Standards and Privileges (23 Jul 2007) has video

George Galloway: ...Lord Hurd, who, in the 1980s, sat on the sofa with Saddam Hussein, helping to facilitate, as you will remember, Mr. Speaker, having been here with me, the supergun. Remember it—the arms to Iraq affair? That was the period in which the British Government were best friends with Saddam Hussein and I was outside the Iraqi embassy in London, demonstrating for human rights and democracy....

Standards and Privileges (23 Jul 2007) has video

George Galloway: ...to investigate the extremely serious allegations made by the Daily Telegraph against George Galloway MP. Since serving in the last Gulf war in 1991, I have been very interested in the situation in Iraq ever since"— I apologise for his English. He is a soldier. I merely left school at 17, like you, Mr. Speaker, to go and work in a factory—

Standards and Privileges (23 Jul 2007) has video

George Galloway: ...says: "Since serving in the last Gulf war"— I cannot resist reading it again— "For a couple of years I was on the Board of Ann Clwyd's organisation "INDICT" and there met a lot of Iraqi opposition figures." There are many new Members in the House, Mr. Speaker, so let me tell them about the organisation Indict. Indict was a political campaign to indict the former leaders of...

Standards and Privileges (23 Jul 2007) has video

George Galloway: This is a question of double standards. It is about the fact that I am being thrown out of the House for running a campaign about Iraq that sometimes used parliamentary facilities and was funded by foreigners. It is based on a complaint by a member of an organisation that campaigned about Iraq, undoubtedly used from time to time some parliamentary facilities, and was funded by not one but...

Pakistan (11 Jun 2007)

George Galloway: ...of jihadism and Islamist fundamentalism that became bin Laden and became the Taliban, on the principle that my enemy's enemy is my friend. However, Madam Deputy Speaker, as we are finding in Iraq and to some extent in Palestine, our enemy's enemy is not always our friend. Sometimes, our enemy's enemy is worse than our enemy, and by allying ourselves with the former, making him our friend,...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Opinion Polls (14 Mar 2007)

George Galloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to her statement in the debate on 24 January 2007, Official Report, column 1428, on Iraq and the wider Middle East, if she will place in the Library the results of the opinion poll of the people of Basra; who (a) commissioned and (b) paid for the poll; which organisation conducted it; and what its (i) methodology...

Opposition Day: Electoral System (26 Feb 2007)

George Galloway: ...a press release that was such a falsification that Andrew Gilligan—remember him? The Minister shakes her head. He was the only journalist to tell us the truth about the Government's lies on Iraq. He said in the Evening Standard that the council's press release was a pack of lies. Who presided over all this? A woman called Christine Gilbert, whose intimate connections to new Labour...

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

George Galloway: ...from the Palestinian Authority. The right hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Jane Kennedy), without a hint of irony, advanced the extraordinary proposition that we are fighting for democracy in Iraq, while we can steal the money of the Palestinian Administration in the occupied territories because the people voted for a Government whom Olmert, Bush and Blair did not like. So myopic was...

Press Regulation (8 May 2006)

George Galloway: ...Monitor published on its front page a story that I had received more than $10 million in regular payments from a son of Saddam Hussein whom I never met, beginning a year before I had ever visited Iraq, and ending some months after I left Iraq for the last time. Those documents, which contained forgeries of my signature and elaborate attempts at a chronology matching my actual visits to...

Defence in the World (7 Jul 2005)

George Galloway: ...Hempstead with what happened to the people in Falluja, I shall move on to firmer ground. Does the House not believe that hatred and bitterness have been engendered by the invasion and occupation of Iraq, by the daily destruction of Palestinian homes, by the construction of the great apartheid wall in Palestine and by the occupation of Afghanistan? Does it understand that the bitterness and...

G8 Meeting (5 Jul 2005)

George Galloway: ...poverty. So far the UK government is largely serving up spin and hype." The Government are engaged in a carefully calculated deception of public opinion to try to draw a veil over the disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan and to scramble up at least the foothills of the moral high ground on the greatest issue facing the world today. More than half the world's population lives on half the money...

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Mr George Galloway: ..., everyone knows that the issue is not whether the inspectors are going back and whether disarmament can proceed. The issue is whether this Government are prepared to join a pre-emptive attack on Iraq by the United States that is not sanctioned by the UN Security Council. I tell the Government that there are two problems with that approach. The first is the leadership qualities of George...

Iraq (6 Mar 2002)

Mr George Galloway: ...Nations. For the avoidance of doubt, I must say that the Secretary-General of the United Nations has stated explicitly that there is no authority and no justification for launching a war against Iraq. Given their public statements, the majority of members of the Security Council of the United Nations are likely to express themselves similarly. Just as Britain and America did not ask for...

Iraq (6 Mar 2002)

Mr George Galloway: ...to world events is extremely important. As a member of the Labour party, how could he think otherwise? The last organisation in the world that is likely to authorise George Bush's attack on Iraq is the United Nations. If I am right about that, I look forward to receiving support in the Lobby. My hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) was right to say that the matter of...

Iraq (6 Mar 2002)

Mr George Galloway: I am glad that the Minister said, "Hear, hear" to my hon. Friend's intervention because I want to ask the Minister a blunt question. If Iraq readmits the United Nations weapons inspectors, whom the British and American Governments withdrew, does he agree that war in those circumstances would be unconscionable? I invite him to rise in response to that point, or at least to deal with it in his...

Coalition against International Terrorism (16 Oct 2001)

Mr George Galloway: ...and exported it. Armed forces throughout the world have in their armoury anthrax and other biological weapons. Our fear is that when this is over, a fabrication of evidence linking this to Iraq will be brought forward as a new causus belli.