From last night's PBS News broadcast:

    On Monday [ May 16, 2005 ], NEWSWEEK retracted its report that U.S. interrogators defiled the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    Overnight, the State Department issued a message worldwide that "Disrespect of the Holy Koran is not the policy of the United States".


    At the Pentagon today, spokesman Lawrence DeRita warned it won't end there:

    "Detainees and their lawyers will make all kinds of charges, and we recognize that.
    In fact, in their own training manuals, they say: Here's what we'll do if we're ever captured. We allege torture, we allege abuse, we allege all kinds of things to influence public opinion.
    And that's happening.
    And in fact, when articles like the NEWSWEEK article come out, and it's unsubstantiated and it turns out false, it will encourage others to do the same thing.    "

    DeRita acknowledged earlier reports that the Koran was desecrated at Guantanamo. He said they were not considered credible.



Regarding the person and character of Galloway, also from the same broadcast:

    The subject was the U.N. scandal-ridden "Oil for Food" program. And on the witness stand was British Menber of Parlament George Galloway.
    Three U.S. Senate investigative reports charge that from 2000 to 2003 Galloway received vouchers to buy 20 million barrels of Iraqi oil at cut-rate prices. Oil that could be re-sold for a sustantial profit.

    In Britain, Galloway is famous as a radical, who was kicked out of Tony Blair's Labour party, for his opposition to the Iraq war and for his sharp personal attacks on the Prime Minister.
    Earlier this month, he won back a seat in Parliament, this time running on an anti-war platform.

[ As G-man pointed out earlier, Galloway won in a district that is predominantly muslim. ]


And most telling of all about Galloway:

    In the 1990's, Galloway criticized the U.N. sanctions placed on Saddam Hussein after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
    Here he is in a 1994 meeting with the Iraqi leader...

    [ video clip of Galloway standing directly in front of a seated Saddam Hussein and his ministers ]

    GALLOWAY: "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatiguability..."

    Later Galloway said he was talking about the Iraqi people, not their leader.



Gee, that's funny, because he was addressing Saddam Hussein personally, and calling him "sir", as he made these accolades of courage, strength and indefatiguability.

Combined with Galloway's opposition to sanctions against Saddam.





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    Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.

    EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.