Ganesh, I do not think that pointing out that Saddam Hussein was a person who ordered the death of thousands of individuals is an expression of overblown rhetoric.
No, but your repeated use of "mass murderer" and apparent insistence that merely being in the same room as Hussein (and 'seeming to be implicating in supporting him') is morally reprehensible tends to focus primarily on outrage-driven emotive shock value, while brushing aside
a) the fact that, whether or not you choose to believe him, Galloway has repeatedly insisted that his praise was aimed at the Iraqi people (partly for their determination in the face of suffering caused by the actions of Western "mass murderers")
and
b) the wider context ie. the fact that political leaders 'cosy up' to those who order the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals - and, in the case of Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld et al., are responsible for ordering the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals - on a near-daily basis. When they're not directly sending others out to do the mass-murdering themselves, they're doing business, selling arms, harbouring dictators, training torturers and commissioning atrocities in the name of 'national interest'. Within this context, George Galloway inhabiting the same room as Saddam Hussein and 'seeming to be implicating in supporting' him is small potatoes indeed. |
