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Viciously anti-[[Israel]], he has boasted that he sometimes dreamed he was part of an army wading ashore waving a [[Kalashnikov]] and driving the [[Judaism|Jewish]] nation into the sea. When this was reported, he claimed he had been misquoted.
Viciously anti-[[Israel]], he has boasted that he sometimes dreamed he was part of an army wading ashore waving a [[Kalashnikov]] and driving the [[Judaism|Jewish]] nation into the sea. When this was reported, he claimed he had been misquoted.
Though Galloway's supporter's claim that he is an "anti-war" politician, he was a supporter of Saddam Hussein's 1991 attack on Kuwait, as well as describing terrorists in post-Saddam Iraq as "freedom fighters."
Galloway has stated "''I am on the anti-imperialist left... and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe.''"<ref>'''Hattenstone, Simon''', "Saddam and me" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,792765,00.html ''The Guardian''] September 16, 2002</ref>
Galloway has stated "''I am on the anti-imperialist left... and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe.''"<ref>'''Hattenstone, Simon''', "Saddam and me" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,792765,00.html ''The Guardian''] September 16, 2002</ref>