Galloway on the bombings:
Londoners have paid the price for Iraq and Afghanistan, says George Galloway.What he's saying doesn't seem all that controversial to me -- but what is the response from Labour?
The Respect MP, whose Bethnal Green and Bow constituency includes the site of at least one of the bomb attacks, said the attacks were "despicable".
But he told MPs it was the US-led coalition's actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo which had inflamed hatred of the West in the Muslim world.
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He argued that the bombings had not come out of the "clear blue sky" - the background was the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, photographs of abuses by US troops at Abu Ghraib prison and the continuing confinement of people by America at Guantanamo.
Mr Galloway said the West was in danger of making the same mistakes over and over again, continuing with "war and occupation as the principal instrument of our foreign and defence policy".
He added: "And if we do then some people will get through and hurt us as they have hurt us today."
In response, minister Adam Ingram accused Mr Galloway of "dipping his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood".Methinks thou doth protest too much...
The armed forces minister added that Mr Galloway's comments were "disgraceful".




