politics ala George Galloway

I agree with Wipers – the man is a complete and utter cock.

He went into the interview spoiling for sound bites. He immediately launched into a tirade about what a stupid question he was being asked. I’m sorry but that was just plain out of order and completely ruined any chance of the interview being any kind of reasoned debate. And that was a deliberate tactic, as Galloway knows that his “logic” and “facts” never stand up to reasoned debate and cross examination. The whole tone of that interview was set by him, not Sky, to divert attention from the nebulousness of his stance.

His “facts” are complete rubbish – opinion stated as fact and shouted the loudest does not make it true.

Likening Hezbollah to the French Resistance is stretching things way beyond the absurd. For example, the French resistance did not operate cross border rocket attacks and suicide bombings on civilian targets, and then rush back behind the border of another sovereign nation to hide. And he has the gall to say that Hezbollah is not a terrorist organisation – it is only painted thus by the media. Only a one eyed madman could think thus.

Here’s another rubbish statement from Galloway in the interview: “In most peoples eyes Israel is a terrorist state”. WTF? Really? Do you assume that any Israeli you meet is a terrorist? What the hell is a “terrorist state”? It’s just an utterly meaningless term.

I’m not apologising for Israel, and I don’t particularly support them in this most recent action. There may be elements of truth about the US diverting attention from Iraq and pointing more fingers at Iran. But you could argue it the opposite way too – Iran diverting attention from its interference in Iraq. That’s the thing with conspiracy theories – you can make them fit your opinion and never worry about proof.

There was an interesting article in one of the papers the other day on the PR war in Lebanon. It basically looked at a whole load of news reports and found some common patterns. Things like shots of a child’s shoe in the street near a crater – there was never two shoes, or three, or four. Strategically placed “Baby Milk Factory” signs – in English. Broken medicine boxes with a red cross on – never a red crescent as you would expect. How, in Iraq, coalition air strijes that go astray always manage to hit a “wedding party”

The fact is that both sides manipulate the media.

While Galloway’s final point about the relative value of human life was a powerful one and not completely without merit, it also ignored the fact that the value people like Hezbollah place on human life is infinitesimal. They know the consequences of where they base their operations from, place their ammo dumps etc, will result in civilian casualties, but they persist.

Fuck me, this is getting serious. I’ll back away from the keyboard now….

Argument clinic anyone?!

The whole thing has an air of Black Hawk Down

“Shit, a couple of our lads have been taken, lets go get em back… and get another few score of us killed whilst we are at it!”

@TurksMeister wrote:

Argument clinic anyone?!

Good idea! Politics and religion – straight to the argument clinic – do not pass GO…

pmsl

where they gettin all the good weapons from then ?? israel that is ?? who is supplying them with these laser guided missiles….fired from jet planes ??

Read what I actually wrote, and listen to what Galloway actually *said*. Which was that the US had supplied Israel with hundreds of long range nuclear missiles capable of reaching all Arab and Muslim cities. I’m pretty sure that if they had been firing those bastards around then it would have made the news.

His comment was in reply to the interviewer asking about his views on Iran supplying long range missiles to Hezbollah. Of course rather than answer that he just rants on about nuclear missiles, which is something he just made up on the spot.

I’m not disputing that the US supplies Israel with arms – of course they do. I was pointing out that Galloway’s “facts” are complete cock.

The fact that he talks crap does not therefore mean that Israel is right in its actions, and that civilian deaths do not count etc etc. That’s a separate argument I’m willing to have.