Galloway: Iraq war caused bombings

editorial@hamhigh.co.uk
12 August 2005
Katie Davies

HUNDREDS gathered near King's Cross to give MP George Galloway rapturous applause when he blamed the Iraq War for the London terror attacks.

A month after the July 7 bombings, Mr Galloway addressed members of the Stop the War Coalition and told them not to be silenced by people who say Iraq is not to blame.

At the Friends Meeting House on Euston Road, just a short distance from the sites of the Piccadilly Line and number 30 bus bombings, the MP for Bethnal Green & Bow said: "It is a crime, a sin in any language, in any religion, to punish innocent people for the cause of the guilty people.

"The guilty men are not travelling on buses or on the London Underground. If you bomb people, some of them will want to bomb you back, it is obvious.

"We will not be silenced. The country has to change course and it will not change course so long as Blair remains at number 10 Downing Street.

"Other speakers at the event underlined the connection between the killing of civilians in Iraq and the atrocities of July 7.

Journalist and political campaigner, Tariq Ali, said: "The government spends so much time denying it because to accept it in public means that it has to accept partial responsibility.

"To argue there are causes is not to justify it but I explain them so a solution can be formed to stop them.

Jeremy Corbyn MP for Islington North said: "Tragically we have been proved to be right.

What happened was a tremendous shock, I have been attending funerals all week in my borough.

"It is time for us to look at our country in the way others look at our country.

The war in Iraq is not the solution but the cause.

"However, objector Tom Cordiner, 28, from Chiswick, shouted "rubbish" at Galloway's claims and shook his head throughout the rally."

There is a confusion between the cause and effect. At no point did anyone say responsibility rests on the bombers, who killed 26 people half a mile away," he told the Ham&High.

"If my mother was blown up, I would feel quite offended. Imams shouldn't be able to spread messages of hate.

"His friend, Neil Levine, 31, from Belsize Park agreed."

I don't mind differences of opinion but take away the Iraq war and this was still going to happen. There must be blame on the bombers.

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