"We're standing by watching the Yemen dictator killing his people. We are standing by watching the Bahrain King killing his people with aid from US ally - Saudi Arabia. The difference is the dirty little 3 letter word - OIL. BP has 50 billion pounds worth of investment in Libya. This is a blatant attempt to protect British and other western companies' massive investment in Libya" says George Galloway, the Scottish politician, author and broadcaster.

Galloway questions the reasoning behind the massive spending on this war at a time when the United Kingdom is almost bankrupt and laying off hundreds of people : "How come we have got money to go after war after war in the interest of oil companies and arms industries"