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[[Image:George_Galloway.jpg|right|thumb|200px|George Galloway]]

[[Image:George_Galloway.jpg|right|thumb|200px|George Galloway]]

'''George Galloway''' (August 16, 1954, [[Dundee]]) is an extreme [[left-wing]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] politician. He was expelled from the [[Britain|British]] [[Labour party]] in October 2003 for bringing the party into disrepute. The party charged that Galloway incited [[Arab]]s to fight British troops and also incited British troops to defy the orders of their officers. The party's National Constitutional Committee was unanimous in its guilty verdict.<ref>"Labour statement on Galloway" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3208755.stm ''BBC News''] October 23, 2003</ref>

'''George Galloway''' (August 16, 1954, [[Dundee]]) is a [[leftist]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] politician. He was expelled from the [[Britain|British]] [[Labour party]] in October 2003 for allegedly bringing the party into disrepute. The party charged that Galloway incited [[Arab]]s to fight British troops and also incited British troops to defy the orders of their officers. The party's National Constitutional Committee was unanimous in its guilty verdict.<ref>"Labour statement on Galloway" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3208755.stm ''BBC News''] October 23, 2003</ref>

==Controversy==

==Controversy==

Galloway first entered politics aged 26 in his home town, where he ordered the [[PLO]] flag to be flown over the town hall and withdraw the city's civic hospitality to visiting [[NATO]] warships. The political editor of one major [[British]] newspaper has gone on record as saying: "''Galloway is a silver-tongued bully who has always been surrounded by a cloud of suspicion over his shifty activities, his manipulation of other people’s cash and his readiness to punch anyone he could not sue...A congenital liar, his favourite defence trick was total denial. If that failed, he would claim he had been misquoted.''"<ref>'''Kavanagh, Trevor''' "Paid to be a traitor" ''The Sun'' (2006)</ref>

Galloway first entered politics aged 26 in his home town, where he ordered the [[PLO]] flag to be flown over the town hall and withdraw the city's civic hospitality to visiting [[NATO]] warships. The political editor of one major [[British]] newspaper has gone on record as saying: "''Galloway is a silver-tongued bully who has always been surrounded by a cloud of suspicion over his shifty activities,his manipulation of other people’s cash and his readiness to punch anyone he could not sue...A congenital liar, his favourite defence trick was total denial. If that failed, he would claim he had been misquoted.''"<ref>'''Kavanagh, Trevor''' "Paid to be a traitor" ''The Sun'' (2006)</ref>

In a 1994 speech he addressed [[Saddam Hussein]] as "Your Excellency, Mr President,"  and went on to state: "''Sir, allow me to salute your courage, your strength and your indefatigability''" and "''hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds''" (Arabic for "until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem"). In his defense he claimed he had been misquoted - although TV footage showed that he hadn't. He was also caught on video meeting with [[Uday Hussein]], Saddam's eldest son, calling him "Excellency"<ref>"Video Shows British MP Met With Hussein's Son" [https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182797,00.html ''Fox News''] January 25, 2006</ref>

In a 1994 speech he addressed [[Saddam Hussein]] as "Your Excellency, Mr President,"  and went on to state: "''Sir, allow me to salute your courage, your strength and your indefatigability''" and "''hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds''" (Arabic for "until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem"). In his defense he claimed he had been misquoted - although TV footage showed that he hadn't. He was also caught on video meeting with [[Uday Hussein]], Saddam's eldest son, calling him "Excellency"<ref>"Video Shows British MP Met With Hussein's Son" [https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182797,00.html ''Fox News''] January 25, 2006</ref>