Time & Perspective Quote by George Galloway

Galloway isn’t predicting history so much as trying to write it in real time, with the kind of moral certainty that turns a policy argument into a verdict. “Damned” is doing the heavy lifting: it’s theological language smuggled into political critique, implying not just error but sin, not just miscalculation but stain. By framing Bush and Blair as a paired unit, he collapses the usual US-UK hierarchy into a shared culpability narrative, making Blair’s “special relationship” less a diplomatic asset than an accessory charge.

The line also trades in a deliberately provocative superlative: “the two most hated countries in the world.” It’s rhetorically blunt, almost tabloid in its sweep, and that’s the point. Galloway is reaching past parliamentary nuance to a wider, angrier public mood shaped by the Iraq War and its contested justifications. “Hated” functions as a proxy for lost legitimacy: global resentment becomes evidence that moral authority has been squandered. He isn’t offering polling data; he’s staging a public shaming.

The subtext is domestic as much as international. For a British politician, dragging Blair into the same dock as Bush is a way to puncture the centrist managerial image and recast New Labour as imperial muscle in modern packaging. The intent is to make support for the war socially radioactive: not merely wrong, but historically unforgivable. In 2000s Britain, that’s a threat politicians actually fear - the afterlife of reputation.