[aldo_14]

What the hell? Why?!

They're Hamas MPs.

[vyper]

I don't know what you Brits think of George Galloway, but he's one suave mother****er. He's like the Sean Connery of politics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw

I don't always agree with his politics but his performance in the US Senate Inquiry made me proud he was a Brit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk

I wish I could find the full length version.


The less said of the cat incident the better... and let us never speak of it again

[Mefustae]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk

Senator - "Mr Galloway, are you going somewhere with this?"
Galloway -  "Yes, i'm going to ask a question regarding your policy on Belgium."

[aldo_14]

I don't know what you Brits think of George Galloway, but he's one suave mother****er. He's like the Sean Connery of politics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw

I don't always agree with his politics but his performance in the US Senate Inquiry made me proud he was a Brit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk

I wish I could find the full length version.


The less said of the cat incident the better... and let us never speak of it again

He lied about being cleared by the Charities Commission*, though.  The CC couldn't follow through their investigation because all the charities' books had been spirited off to Jordan and the few bank statements they could obtain were incomplete.

I just wish we had someone more respectable to do that sort of thing (have a go at the US for being stupid).  When someone like Galloway is the most noticed vocal dissenter, it says a lot of things for the current state of British politics and media - none of them good.

[vyper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk

Senator - "Mr Galloway, are you going somewhere with this?"
Galloway -  "Yes, i'm going to ask a question regarding your policy on Belgium."

[Mefustae]

A vain attempt at humour. Moving on.

[vyper]

Quite so.

[Kosh]

Galloway's opinion on this whole issue.......quite interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQV4NLDlT4&mode=related&search=

[aldo_14]

What, you mean the video linked in a post you just quoted? (!)

[Nuclear1]

Galloway's opinion on this whole issue.......quite interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQV4NLDlT4&mode=related&search=

Ugh. Watching that was like watching a British, Hezbollah-siding Bill O'Reilly.

How do you Brits tolerate this guy?

[aldo_14]

Galloway's opinion on this whole issue.......quite interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQV4NLDlT4&mode=related&search=

Ugh. Watching that was like watching a British, Hezbollah-siding Bill O'Reilly.

How do you Brits tolerate this guy?

With firmly gritted teeth and stiff upper lip.

[vyper]

It's called democracy, people have the right to be assholes.

[Kamikaze]

Somehow, any claims that Israel cares about Lebanese casualties fails to convince me when Israel does things like this:

Israel also threatened to attack UN peacekeepers if they attempted to repair bomb-damaged bridges in southern Lebanon. UN officials contacted the Israeli army to inform them that a team of Chinese military engineers attached to the UN force in Lebanon intended to repair the bridge on the Beirut to Tyre road to enable the transport of humanitarian supplies.

"We must be able to have movement throughout the country to deliver supplies. At this point we can't do that," said David Shearer, the humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon. "The deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure is a violation of international law."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1839442,00.html

[Bobboau]

they blew up those birges for a reason, to keep Hezbollah from bringing more rokets in, if new bridges are built they will have to be blowen up again and any force makeing bridges will also have to be delt with. IIRC the UN had some sort of force there to prevent Hezbollah from useing it as a missle battery, look at it now.

[Mefustae]

Wow, it's like burning your house down to get a single rat.

[Turambar]

Wow, it's like burning your house down to get a single rat.

whats wrong with that?

[NGTM-1R]

Wow, it's like burning your house down to get a single rat.

At the very least you need to change that analogy to be your neighbor's house.

[Mefustae]

Wow, it's like burning your house down to get a single rat.

At the very least you need to change that analogy to be your neighbor's house.

Valid point, but I meant the house not only as a direct metaphor for Hezbollah & Lebanon, but also as both a microcosm for the Middle-East in general, and a metaphoric representation of the diplomatic progress that has been made in recent years to settle the tensions in the region. In attempting to get the rat [Hezbollah/their own ends], they are effectively putting a torch to the entire house [Lebanon/the Middle-East/diplomatic progress], and whether or not it will light depends on Israel's course of action in the coming weeks and months, because it's pretty obvious the rest of the world can't do **** with the US shielding Israel like they are.

In fact, a better analogy would be setting fire to your neighbour's house to kill a rat inside that keeps throwing **** through the window into your livingroom, but the rat can eat fire and... gets superpowers... from it...


...Okay, to be honest, it was like 3am and it was just a remark I pulled out of my arse to see if I could keep the thread going and get a rise out of Sandwich, why are you people reading so far into it?

[Turambar]

as tired as that seems, its mostly accurate.

[GodisanAtheist]

Found a quote the other day that couldn't be more applicable to the current situation... pretty much everywhere:

"We will not acheive world peace by bombing each other's children" - President Jimmy Carter