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George
Galloway, MP from Scotland
speaks against Sanctions on Iraq
Langara College, Vancouver
Tuesday 15 January 2001
George Galloway, MP from Scotland, and Senior Vice Chairman Parliamentary
Labour Party Foreign Affairs Committee, who returned to Britain from
Iraq on Friday, spoke to an overflow class of students at Langara
College in Vancouver at 12:30 p.m. today.
The English-speaking
countries, especially the United States and Britain, have a
deeply cynical policy of double standards regarding the Islamic
world of 1.3 billion people, said Galloway who has visited
Iraq yearly since 1991.
In spite of Osama
Bin Laden’s violence, his primitive politics and his misogyny
he is the most popular figure in this Islamic world, where
he has little competition from the corpulent kings, generals,
dictators and juntas, who obey orders from the west, said Galloway.
I was with Arabs
in Iraq, Jordan and Palestine while they listened to Osama
Bin Laden’s first video and saw the reaction: Their faces
were wet with tears. He pierced their hearts with his message,
which had three arrows:
First: That America will never have peace until Palestine has peace and
justice.
Second: That America will never have peace as long as 6,000 Iraqi children
die
each month due to U.S. enforced UN sanctions.
Third: America will never have peace as long as the west maintains tyrants
and
puppet rulers in the Islamic world.
The Islamic world
sees 6,000 Iraqi children die every month for ten years and
sees that the west doesn’t care, said Galloway, but when
3,000 people die in the World Trade Centers the whole world
shakes and is now on the brink of many wars. Galloway sees
this as part of a pervasive double-standard by which the blood
of Americans is worth so much more than the blood of Iraqis
or Afghanis.
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