I have just endured a stomach-churning five minutes watching George Galloway on Arab Television courtesy of the Middle East Media Research Institue (via Harry). I wonder, with quotes like these is it not possible to chuck Galloway out of Parliament?

Galloway (on Syrian TV, July 31, 2005): Two of your beautiful daughters are in the hands of foreigners – Jerusalem and Baghdad. The foreigners are doing to your daughters as they will. The daughters are crying for help, and the Arab world is silent. And some of them are collaborating with the rape of these two beautiful Arab daughters. Why? Because they are too weak and too corrupt to do anything about it.

Galloway (on Al-Jazeera TV, July 31, 2005): They can control the skies, but only if they don’t come within range of an RPG, but they can’t control one single street in any part of occupied Iraq. Not one street. Not one street anywhere. These poor Iraqis – ragged people, with their sandals, with their Kalashnikovs, with the lightest and most basic of weapons – are writing the names of their cities and towns in the stars, with 145 military operations every day, which has made the country ungovernable by the people who occupy it.

We don’t know who they are, we don’t know their names, we never saw their faces, they don’t put up photographs of their martyrs, we don’t know the names of their leaders. I’m sure, for all the times I spent in Iraq, that I never met any of them before. They are not the comfortable in the former regime, they are not the leaders, with maybe one exception: Izzat Ibrahim Al-Durri. They are the base of this society. They are the young men and the young women who decided, whatever their feelings about the former regime – some are with, some are against. But they decided, when the foreign invaders came, to defend their country, to defend their honor, to defend their families, their religion, their way of life from a military superpower, which landed amongst them. And they are winning the war.

America is losing the war in Iraq, and even the Americans now admit it. Even the puppet ministers and regime in Baghdad know it. The former puppet minister (Iyad) Allawi admitted it three times in the last month. America is losing the war in Iraq. And this will not change. The resistance is getting stronger every day, and the will to remain as an occupier by Britain and America is getting weaker everyday. Therefore, it can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs, and they are defending all the people of the world from American hegemony.

These don’t sound like the words of a British MP who opposes the war. Galloway’s tirade is an incitement for insurgents in Iraq to attack British troops. Are British MPs allowed to do this? I’m all for free speech. But where’s the respect? Oh sorry, I forgot. That’s the name of Galloway’s party.

When I watch Galloway on television, when I hear his invective, I am truly afraid. He reminds me of a dictator, a racist, and a bully. There is indeed, as AA Gill pointed out, more than an inch of Napoleon in George.