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Thread #103514   Message #2112686
Posted By: Mr Happy
27-Jul-07 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Did George Galloway Get A Fair Hearing
Subject: RE: Did George Galloway Get A Fair Hearing
GUEST,crazyhorse,

I followed your link to the Independent which mentions that GG allegedly said what you posted.

Having never heard of GQ Magazine, I took a shufty at their page.




http://www.gq-
magazine.co.uk/?zed


Apparently its a soft porn rag for 'Gentlemen?'


Unfortunately, neither the Independent nor GQ name the interviewer so causing a difficulty to further research this matter.

Since GG has been smeared by the press previously, notably the Telegraph, we've no way of verifying wether his statement has been taken out of context.

Here's the passage from the Independent:

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."

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Read carefully, plenty of opportunity there to twist his words to mean something different to his intention