Galloway’s Newest (and WORST) Shame

We here at the weblog were wrong earlier concerning British MP George Galloway. Evidently, prancing around in a leotard with Pete Burns or pretending to lap milk from the hand of Rula Lenska is not scraping the lowest of the low.

This is.

Video footage has emerged showing George Galloway shaking hands with Saddam Hussein’s son Uday Hussein — an alleged rapist, torturer and convicted murderer.

The video, obtained by The Sun, shows the Respect MP having a 20-minute meeting with Saddam’s eldest son in an Iraqi palace in 1999.

In the video, Galloway is seen to greet Uday, shaking his hand twice and calling him “Excellency.”

He jokes about losing weight, going bald and failing to give up smoking cigars.

Galloway also orders watching journalists not to publish parts of their conversation.

Finally, according to the paper, he taunts the U.S. and vows to stick with Uday “until the end”.

The video was shot for an Iraqi TV station and was smuggled out of Iraq before the regime fell.

Uday beat and stabbed to death his father’s personal valet and food taster, Kemal Hana Gegeo, and was briefly imprisoned by Saddam. He also raped numerous women, and his victims are believed to have included a visiting Russian ballerina.

And as head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, he oversaw the imprisonment and torture of Iraqi athletes who were deemed not to have performed to expectations.

Oh, by the way, Galloway was voted off of Celebrity Big Brother tonight. Let’s hope he gets voted out of the House of Commons real soon — that is, if nobody makes good on that fatwa on his head…

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