Galloway
stood before Saddam Hussein and said ‘Your
Excellency, Mr President. I greet you in the name of the many
thousands of people in
Britain
who stood against the tide and opposed the war and aggression against Iraq
and continue to oppose the war by economic means which is aimed to strangle the
life out of the great people of
Iraq
. "I greet you too, in the
name of the Palestinian people…..I thought
the President would appreciate
to know that even today, three years after the war, I still meet families who
are calling their newborn sons Saddam…Sir, I salute your courage, your
strength your indefatigability. And
I want you to know
that we are with you until victory, until victory until
Jerusalem
." (The Times, 20th January,
1994).