Galloway and Bradford Deserve Each Other
British MP George Galloway speaks at a rally to welcome the international aid convoy "Lifeline-3 for Gaza", in Amman on December 23, 2009. Hundreds of volunteers in several vehicles, from Britain, Turkey and Syria and several other countries are taking part in the international aid convoy led by Galloway to aid Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI / AFP / Getty Images)
George Galloway has returned to Parliament, winning a by-election in Bradford, Yorkshire. Bradford was once known as a textile center, but industry decayed long ago, and today the town's main claim to fame is as the site of the first protests against Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
George Galloway is the MP notorious for—among other appalling acts—being suspended from the House of Commons for concealing the true source of money he received from Iraq for a dubious "charity" he controlled. The money was diverted by Saddam Hussein's government from the U.N. oil for food program.
Seems like a match made in ... well, wherever such matches are made.
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David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.
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