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Old 1st Apr 2003, 16:50
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Extract from the Guardian(1/4):

"Mr Galloway insisted today that he stood by all of his comments, arguing that the war was illegal and urging British soldiers to refuse to obey what were "illegal orders".

"The wolves are Bush and Blair, not the soldiers. The soldiers are lions led by donkeys, sent to kill and be killed.

"As for being a traitor, the people who have betrayed this country are those who have sold it to a foreign power and who have been the miserable surrogates of a bigger power for reasons very few people in Britain can understand," he said.

The MP denied that his interview amounted to incitement for Arabs to kill British troops.

He added: "The best thing British troops can do is to refuse to obey illegal orders."

His comments were condemned by the armed forces minister Adam Ingram.

"Are there no depths to which George Galloway will not sink?" he said.

"I am sure such disgraceful comments will be rightly condemned the length and breadth of this country," Mr Ingram told the Sun."
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