Galloway on NI

[Maeve]

After making himself a hero in his visit to the US, here's what yer man is saying back home:

Mr Galloway asked whether Tony Blair would let DUP leader Ian Paisley “push him away” from achieving peace in the North.
The newly elected Respect MP was the focus of world attention earlier this month when he addressed a US Senate committee about accusations that he had received vouchers for millions of barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Mr Galloway said he was not surprised by the DUP refusal to share power with Sinn Féin.
“The British government have been backing down in the face of the unionist veto for the past eight or nine decades and that has led to the bloody history of Ireland in the 20th and now in the 21st century,” he told RTÉ Radio.
“The real question is whether Tony Blair is going to allow him get away with it or not.
“Is Tony Blair, who said he felt the hand of history on his shoulder, prepared to let the hand of Ian Paisley push him away from the one cardinal legacy that would have been worth having, and that was achieving peace in the North of Ireland?”
Mr Galloway was expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 over his criticism of the Iraq war. He has been one of Mr Blair’s staunchest critics ever since.

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[two gun sid]

1. Thanks for posting this, Maeve....

on a side note: I will be sending my order in tomorrow for your book.

[DaveinMD]

2. awesome quote

and dead on accurate.