IRAQ: BRITISH MP GALLOWAY ARRIVES IN BAGHDAD
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- (11 Nov 1999) English/Nat
Tens of thousands of Baghdad residents have filled the streets to welcome a British lawmaker campaigning to end sanctions against Iraq.
George Galloway, who drove out to Iraq in a double decker London bus, has been feted as a hero by Iraqis.
Iraqis have been filling the streets in the tens of thousands this week - something that hasn't happened since before security-conscious President Saddam Hussein stopped going out publicly years ago.
The man many Iraqis have turned out to cheer is British.
George Galloway, a Labour Party member of Britain's House of Commons, was being received by Iraqi officials in a style similar to what visiting dignitaries received before the 1990-91 Gulf crisis isolated Iraq from the outside world.
Galloway brought a classic red British double-decker bus full of Britons, Moroccans, Algerians, French, Americans and Jordanians to Iraq in a move to publicise his call for an end to nine years of economic sanctions that have devastated Iraq's economy.
Iraq is making the most of Galloway's visit, warmly welcoming the lawmaker from America's primary Gulf War ally and spurring the public show of support.
For his part, the British MP said the West would never break the Iraqi people.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The British and the Americans and the others have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try to break this country, to try to break it into three parts so that they could dominate it and give it orders, order it what to do. They have completely failed.
SUPER CAPTION: George Galloway, British MP
Galloway, who arrived on Saturday, was on Thursday touring the impoverished Baghdad neighbourhood of Saddam City.
Riding in front of his bus in a Ranger Rover he flashed victory signs and waved to the estimated 100-thousand people who turned out.
Leaders of Saddam City presented Galloway with an Arab sword on behalf of the millions who live in the Baghdad slum.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
We are very proud indeed of this magnificent welcome given to us by the people of Saddam City Baghdad.
SUPER CAPTION: George Galloway, British MP
The British lawmaker started his trip from London on September 6 and crossed 11 countries in the bus adorned with Iraqi flags and slogans.
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This is so beautiful. George is a brave empathetic man . ❤️🙏🏼
Wow so much people love him
Clown. You think they just turned up. Saddam had them ordered to celebrate the parasites arrival.
@@markymark7803 ? I'm from Baghdad and I lived through the entire shit show in our once beautiful country. The president is not like how the newspapers present. He was a leader and what you see in this view is genuine, he was dealing with a million other issues which were in an entirely different capacity to "ordering" people to go welcome Mr. Galloway. In fact, many of us were actually afraid to go out and welcome him in fear of consequences if Mr. Galloway had said or done him wrong. We would have been seen as his "supporters" then. When we ran away and came to the UK we saw an entirely different image of how the media presents reality. Don't get me wrong it is much worse back there too about the western world. Make yourself more familiar with the Arabs' culture and ways of hospitality in that part of the world.
@@issacissac9861 He murdered millions of his own people with chemical weapons. What a great leader he was.
@@markymark7803 Again, you’re just saying what you’ve been told / read by the news. My dad, 6 of his brothers and 5 uncles from mums side. All we’re in army when Iraq was at war with Iran. This is media talk my friend it’s not necessary true all the time. That was 1980 until 8 August 1988 (Famous date for all Iraqis) and the alleged “chemical mass killing” would’ve been between years 1980-88. Fast forward all the way to 2003, USA invades the country and few years after that they admit Iraq had no weapons of distraction. Wouldn’t you think if they had chemical weapons in the 80s they would’ve had some if not more in the 00s? Regardless, not a fan of Saddam and I said leader; never said he was great.
@@issacissac9861 It's not what i've been told, it's what your own country showed and international community recorded. Chemical weapons used, millions of bodies.
George Galloway is a good man with a great heart for trying to help innocent people who didn’t deserve to suffer the way they were. Good and humble people around the world including Iraqis, British and Americans support his efforts and thank him. The whole world should stand up to any unjust actions even if those actions are inflicted by their own government. George stood up to his own government for their unjust treatment of Iraqis and Saddam Hussein. I as an American support his efforts and stand by him. It’s great and brave people like George who give the world a fighting chance for justice. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇶 💪🏼
He stole money for the food for oil program. He support saddam and assad. What did he do for poor people, women's rights? For democracy and representation of ordinary people? For kurdish people?
@@markymark7803 that's falsehood! You lying confidentially
@@FreeBaghdad Nope, it's a fact and posting it publicly 😂😂🤣
@@markymark7803 A kurdish traitor..
What should i expect?
@@FreeBaghdad What you on about now
amazing.
Hero!
Those children don’t know if it’s George Galloway of the jungle . Poor kids.
George your the best. Fair and honest.
Didn't George was the leader of Iraq 0:24
Wasn't.. "englishman" 😅
I have no idea what’s happening here
Same
I'Am Iraqi, I will try my best to explain this story to you:
In this time, We had sanctions and embargo for 12 years!! by American-british orders which prevent any country from buying or selling to us..! they kept us away form the outside world for more than a decade in a preparatory step to weaken us and occupy our country later, ,
We were starving at that time and dying so our families did many weird things to keep us alive, but unfortunately many children had died cause of that, so those demons decided to force us to sell our oil only for food just to rescue what we left... this scandal supervised by british government under a program called "oil for food" so this guy felt us & decided to break all the laws & sacrificed his political life to make this step in order to aid the Iraqi people.
@@FreeBaghdad thanks for explaining that
George once again on the right side of history.
The Pope has turned up in Baghdad George Galloway
I wonder how many of those poor people were flattened by the British and American bombs that would rain down on them months later. Poor George. How their faces must haunt his dreams.
Salute u..
Thoroughly shameful performance from Galloway. If he had an enema he would fit in a matchbox.
Look at Iraq here and the nightmare it has gone through SINCE the war based on lies. The sanctions on Iraq that killed so many children. The terrorism and instability that arose after the Saddam regime collapsed. You would have thought our leaders would have learned the lesson but no. They went on to repeat the same in Libya and Syria. Today as the bombardment of Gaza rages on, it seems Biden, Sunak and other western leaders have NO red line when it comes to Israel and what it can get away with.
what an absolute chancer, Pathological narcissist
you only describe yourself
@@pavarotti744 😘
I m from iraq
0:28 he says it all
Especially the 3 parts! which didn't exist before the invasion..
that bit surprised me. I think of iraq of having a small coast, a large very difficult to get in or out of 'outback' and then cities near two important rivers.
Would like to know what the 3rd bit was in the year he said this
Saddam the great the hero of people the nation of iraq