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Motivations for "Peace with Iraq"
 
Michael Ubaldi, April 22, 2003.
 

They're not all drawn from vituperative anti-Americanism or moral equivocation, according to the British Daily Telegraph:

George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least £375,000 a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad.

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For more than a decade, Mr Galloway, MP for Glasgow Kelvin, has been the leading critic of Anglo-American policy towards Iraq, campaigning against sanctions and the war that toppled Saddam.

He led the Mariam Appeal, named after an Iraqi child he flew to Britain for leukaemia treatment. The campaign was the supposed beneficiary of his fund-raising.

But the papers say that, behind the scenes, Mr Galloway was conducting a relationship with Iraqi intelligence. Among documents found in the foreign ministry was a memorandum from the chief of the Mukhabarat to Saddam's office on Jan 3, 2000, marked "Confidential and Personal".


The document in question leaves a wonderful crawling sensation in your skin. What precious wisdom and righteousness, all for less than half a million pounds a year!

A tip of the hat to Andrew Sullivan for the links as well as his poignant observation. If true, this will be quite "a bombshell." The intransigent left is just that; they'll just as soon canonize the man if denial can't parry overwhelming evidence. But this is important for the many people in the West who are busy raising families and holding down honest jobs with no time for politics if they were inclined so to begin with. These vital people, certainly the majority of Americans, have nevertheless supported this war through a combination of common sense and trust in the president, fortified by his stunning case and subsequent military victory. A moment such as this one, wrenching aside the flower-bedecked curtain to expose anti-liberation for what it is, is tonic for the trust between president and constituency. The everyman can be confident in his support, fully aware if he wasn't before of what kind of conscience opposes him - it certainly isn't a pious one.