George Gallowy: The Assassination Of Tony Blair is "Morally Justified"

I caught this on Drudge last night, but was too tired to touch on it. The Independent has his statement in which he states that yes, the assassination of British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be "morally justified."

The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.
In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"

Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."

The Labour MP Stephen Pound, a persistent critic of Mr Galloway during previous controversies, told The Sun that the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in east London was "disgraceful and truly twisted".

He said: "These comments take my breath away. Every time you think he can't sink any lower he goes and stuns you again. It's reprehensible to say it would be justified for a suicide bomber to assassinate anyone."

The Stop the War Coalition criticised Mr Galloway: "We don't agree with Tony Blair's actions, but neither do we agree with suicide bombers or assassinations."

We should bear in mind that Galloway has been a controversial figure in British politics for some time now. He got kicked out of Labour in 2005 for his antiwar views, but was later reelected to Parliament under "his own banner." He quickly rose to the top of the antiwar nutters in Britain. He was tainted by the UN's "Oil-For-Fraud" scandal. Senator Norm Coleman had him testify before his committee over the allegations he took bribes from Saddam. Galloway lost his temper and his marbles during that hearing, proclaiming for all that he didn't receive a solitary cent in the Oil-For-Food payoffs. Five months after that performance, Senator Coleman and his committee found the financial records tying him to over $715,000 in monies received. ($446,000 through a charity he set up, and later funneled money into his private accounts, $150,000 to Galloway's wife, and the Volcker report detailed another $120,000 to his wife.)

If that isn't enough--that a noted British politician would take money from a dictator to help said dictator get sanctions removed so he can back to "business as usual" in his country (torturing, murdering raping his people, and continuing down the path of WMD construction and research)--this statement of a suicide bomber killing Tony Blair takes the cake entirely. We knew this guy was a nut. But how nutty can you get to publicly state such a view. This is like Randi Rhodes tasteless "joke" about killing President Bush:

Comparing Bush and his family to the Corleones of "Godfather" fame, Air America host Randi Rhodes reportedly unleashed this zinger during her Monday night broadcast: "Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw. "

Rhodes then imitated the sound of a gunshot.

(For the record, Fredo sold the family out to its enemies; the reason why Michael had him killed.)

But this doesn't excuse Galloway's comments, and I'm happy to see the antiwar groups in Britian distancing themselves from this nut. And we should also keep in mind that the Independent is hardly "right-wing." It is noted for it's staunch, hard-Left politics, and it's antiwar stance. However, even they could not endorse such a statement by Galloway. And there are others in British politics and government who have condemned this statement.

But Galloway loves the thugs. He always has. From Saddam Hussein to Fidel Castro, and every thug in between, it's assured that somewhere along the way, Galloway will pimp for them .... and at the right price, too.

Publius II