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Posted on 09/04/2005 4:07:24 PM PDT by Valin
Left pounces
THE controversial MP George Galloway, who is to tour America this month accompanied by Jane Fonda, the Hollywood star, will be sharpening his critique of the Iraq war in the light of President George W Bush’s difficulties in coping with the effects of hurricane Katrina.
As Denise Bollinger, a tourist stranded in New Orleans said, “It’s downtown Baghdad.”
The anti-war left has been quick to suggest that American troops, including members of the Louisiana National Guard — many of whom are deployed in Iraq — would prefer to be helping their own citizens rather than facing Islamic insurgents.
Fonda, a veteran anti-war protester who earned the name Hanoi Jane during the Vietnam war, is to speak alongside Galloway at two meetings in Madison, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois.
She was persuaded to join the MP’s travelling show by her friend, Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, after Fonda was impressed by Galloway’s pugnacious performance last spring in front of a senate committee investigating the United Nations oil-for-food scandal.
The star abandoned plans for her own anti-war roadshow and threw in her lot with Galloway after Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother of a soldier who spent August camped outside Bush’s holiday home in Texas, decided to mount another touring protest.
Winning Fonda’s support is a coup that will raise the MP’s profile in America. Organisers of his tour are hoping that Sean Penn, another leading Hollywood anti-war protester, will join Galloway on stage in Los Angeles.
Galloway said he was delighted by Fonda’s backing: “She’s a big star with a luminous reputation as an anti-war figure.”
The tour, which kicks off in Boston on September 13 and ends in Washington on September 24, is billed as Mr Galloway Goes to Washington, after the classic James Stewart film about honest, homespun “Mr Smith’s” efforts to clean up America’s politics. Galloway is also publishing a book of the same name.
Chris Dols, an organiser of the US tour, said: “Jane Fonda and George Galloway will point out how much money is being wasted on the war when it is needed to help people at home. We can’t take care of our poor black people in the United States, yet the military is spending billions on the war in Iraq.”
The 51-year-old MP for Bethnal Green and Bow said he was a fan of Fonda’s movies and was old enough to remember her in Barefoot in the Park, with Robert Redford.
The film star has rediscovered her inner radicalism, which lay dormant for a while. Fonda, 67, began speaking out against the Iraq war last spring during the promotion of her autobiography, My Life So Far.
She condemned the “lies” that led America into the Iraq war. “I’ve decided I’m coming out,” she said.
The MP’s critics question whether Fonda is fully aware of Galloway’s controversial background. The senate committee investigating the UN oil-for-food scandal controversially claimed that Saddam Hussein had granted him vouchers for 20m barrels of oil in 2000-03. but produced no evidence to support the allegation.
The MP retorted that the accusations were the “mother of all smokescreens” to divert attention from the “crimes” of the Iraq war.
One of the more challenging encounters for Galloway on his eight-city tour will be a debate with Christopher Hitchens, the British writer, who is a robust defender of the war. “The argument about the justice and necessity of the Iraq war is unaffected by the hurricane. It’s very crude exploitation of the emotions of the moment. There is more than enough money to strengthen the levees in New Orleans without abandoning Iraq,” Hitchens said.
The American organisers of the tour say up to 10,000 people will hear Galloway speak but they do not expect a profit.
“Maybe next year I will be able to go on one of those American lecture circuits which are always accompanied by the word ‘lucrative’,” Galloway said.
The Wank & Skank Tour
How about the fly-one-way list: OUTTA HERE!!
How come the Mayor and Governor get off Scott free? I bet Jeb Bush wishes he had that kind of immunity.
Commie tour path identified...ping others.
Now, now, fellow freepers; I realize that we have our differences with Jane and George but we must not forget our manners.
If Galloway chooses to visit your community, please extend him every courtesy due a distinguished visitor. Show the tolerance and progressive spirit of enlightenment for which we are so justly famous. Listen patiently to his dissident but passionately expressed views. Praise him afterward for his sagacity and moral vision and ensure that he is the center of attention at the tasteful gathering of cognoscenti that will surely follow. Then hang him.
So he is providing the oil to grease her bus?
Stock up on chewin' tabaccy too.
Can I bring a pie? I'm thinking something from the cream pie family.
I say we hang 'im first. Then we'll let the Leftists praise him at his funeral. Two birds. One stone.
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If I do that, what will I do with all this tar and chicken feathers?
If the American people were foolish enough to let these Leftists succeed with their plans, the New Orleans disaster would be world-wide, worse, and permanent.
What no Jews!
Hell, they have to be careful ----- too many Jews are Democrats or worse.
Semper Fi
Lord Haw-Haw and Axis Sally's traveling Pink Circus.
Jane Fonda Luminous ?
She hasn't had a light to shine since Barbarella!
Let her repent on the Gibbet, she can swing next to
Galloway.
I see the scum are coming out from under their rocks.
Notice how Hanoi Jane did the Clinton lip bite and "regretted" her treasonous activities with her beloved communist North Vietnamese just long enough to hump her book, "My Life So Far," and the release of her new movie Monster-in-Law.
Now that she has made a few bucks off of us capitalists, she can revert to her normal state of anti-Americanism. But what to do when you can't find a convenient communist? Latch onto a proven Saddam lover, George Galloway.
She still gets to tear down America and become "relevant" again, at least in her own mind.
If her GreaseBus came through my town, I guarantee I would apply a little patriotic "detailing" in the form of rotten eggs and tomatoes!
Why doesn't Hanoi Jane go to North Korea? She could be a concubine to Dear Leader! And Cuba hasn't gone anywhere.
Anybody told you lately that you're precious?
Well, you ARE!
Thanks for a good, full belly laugh!
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