I'm in love, and I can't deny it

"I'm so excited... and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it."

And who is it that has me giddy as a school girl attending her first Brad Pitt film? It's none other than British Member of Parliament, House of Commons, George Galloway.



Sure, he may not be much to look at in terms of eye candy, but if conditions in this life were vastly different, I swear I'd be volunteering to have his baby right about now. Following his blockbuster congressional committee appearance where he shoved the noses of several GOP Senators in the dog poo of Washington's disastrous handling of Iraq, he has now done a radio interview that could bring tears to your eyes. Check out a few of his choice answers when interviewed by Thom Hartman. (Note: I'm not sure I'm really on board with his assessment of Henry Kissinger, but he's entitled to his opinion.) All emphais is mine.

[Thom Hartmann] Yeah. George Galloway, Member of Parliament in the, in Great Britain, of the House of Commons. Why do you believe that Tony Blair decided to join president Bush in waging war when, as has recently emerged with this Downing Street memo, he knew that the case was flimsy, and do you think that either Blair or Bush or people in their administration should be prosecuted on any, on any level for this activity?

[George Galloway] Well, first of all I am sure that they will not be prosecuted, because it is only losers that are prosecuted. In the international system that we have there's no chance of the likes of Henry Kissinger, for example, the greatest living war criminal in the world today with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor or in many other places on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. That's for the tin pot tyrants, the tiny tyrants like Milosevic; they get sent there. The big tyrants never face justice.

I wish I knew the answer to your first question, why did Tony Blair join it? Certainly, it's been utterly ruinous to his political reputation. He will, he will be followed into the history books and into the grave with this mark of Cain on his forehead. He will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid. All I can say from my own conversations with Mr. Blair, man to man, are that I think that both him and George W. Bush are possessed of a kind of messianic belief that somebody, God perhaps, gave them the job of shouldering the white man's burden, which is the world. That someone gave them the right to step outside of international law; go anywhere, do anything, pay any price in other people's blood, to reshape the world in their image; in the image that they want to see. And I think that both men will be damned in history.

Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world. They have endangered the lives and safety of our citizens. They have damaged our economic and cultural and social interests, and they should face prosecution, but never will.

Whoah, Nelly! It's not that I don't think America is probably the greatest country in the world to live in, but one thing we are sorely missing is politicians with the cojones to step up in front of a microphone and scream the truth at tyrannical abuse. It's refreshing, much the same as seeing a streaker dashing across the field at a football game. You're supposed to be saying, "Oh, man. Get her off the field so we can get on with the game." But at the same time, you find yourself thinking, "there's somebody who's a lot more free than I'll ever be again."

Read all of Galloway's interview. He's a firebrand, and no doubt about it, but he always has enlightening things to say and is absolutely fearless.