War & Peace Quote by George Galloway

Galloway isn’t arguing a case so much as staging an indictment in public, where the jury is the audience and the point is to make impunity feel obscene. The language is maximalist by design: “greatest living war criminal” isn’t a measurable claim; it’s a ranking meant to collapse decades of Cold War realpolitik into a single moral verdict. That absolutism is the hook, forcing listeners to choose sides quickly: either you accept the premise that power can be criminal, or you retreat into procedural hedging.

The list of countries works like a drumbeat. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Chile, East Timor: different continents, different governments, one alleged through-line of U.S.-aligned intervention. It’s not just evidence; it’s a map of a worldview in which Kissinger is less a man than a symbol of how policy decisions translate into body counts far from Washington. By stacking them without nuance, Galloway turns complexity into cumulative weight, betting that the sheer sprawl of suffering will outrun any fact-check.

The final sentence is the real point: not the blood, but the immunity. “He will never appear in a court” frames international justice as a system with trapdoors for the powerful. Subtext: we prosecute small-time tyrants and foot soldiers; architects in suits get book deals. In Britain’s theatrical parliamentary culture, it’s also a provocation - a way for Galloway, a perennial outsider, to define himself against establishment deference and to weaponize moral clarity as political identity.