Galloway is hoping for lots of US and British casualties in Iraq (via Chrenkoff):
George Galloway, the rebel MP, yesterday said he hoped that US and British forces in Iraq will stay there so they can receive a “bloody good hiding” from the Iraqi armed resistance to the occupation.
Mr Galloway, who said he would stand as a candidate for his new party, Respect, at the next general election, was asked at a packed session at the Edinburgh International Book Festival whether he wanted the troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.
He said: “In a perverse way I hope they stay there. If they stay there they will get a bloody good hiding.
“The Vietnamese gave them a bloody good hiding 30 years ago and they did not invade another country for a long time afterwards.
“And the Iraqi people are giving them a hiding daily and will continue to do so in increasing numbers as long as they stay there.”
There are limits though to what a sophisticated crowd at a book festival will find acceptable:
He prompted some jeers from the audience when he poured scorn on the idea of Scottish independence.
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