Britain's Galloway Turns Into Media Hero

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Britain's Galloway Turns Into Media Hero

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer

There is usually no love lost between George Galloway and the British press. But after the maverick lawmaker's blistering performance before a U.S. Senate committee this week in which he excoriated the Bush administration over Iraq, not even his biggest critics could contain their grudging admiration.

"Galloway: the man who took on America," ran a headline in The Independent newspaper on Thursday.

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"In one hour, George Galloway has shown how to do what a succession of British ministers ... have conspicuously failed to do: to stand up to American bullying and mendacity," reader Andy Bailey wrote in a letter to the editor of the Guardian.

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"I think I won the battle of public opinion and I am going to continue my work," Galloway told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "My battle continues to try and force the British government to withdraw our soldiers from Iraq, where they should never have been, where too many have been killed and where they are in grave danger."

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And he Offered this salvo to Christopher Hitchens:"You're a Drink-soaked Former Trotskyist Popinjay!"

Before the hearing began, the independent MP for Bethnal Green and Bow had some scorn to bestow generously upon the pro-war writer Christopher Hitchens. "You're a drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay," Mr Galloway informed him. "Your hands are shaking. You badly need another drink," he added later, ignoring Mr Hitchens's questions and staring intently ahead. "And you're a drink-soaked ..." Eventually Mr Hitchens gave up. "You're a real thug, aren't you?" he hissed, stalking away.

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