George Galloway launches campaign against 'reprehensible' Twitter A widely watched 1994 video of Mr Galloway showed him telling the then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein: "I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability." The MP later denied "fawning" over Saddam Hussein, saying he was a "bestial dictator" and that the visit to Iraq had been aimed at getting him to readmit weapons inspectors. A video of a very different kind went on to overshadow even that notorious Saddam tape. In 2006 Mr Galloway was criticised for appearing on the reality television show Celebrity Big Brother, where he was shown wearing a skin-tight red leotard and pretending to be a cat licking imaginary milk from the hands of actress Rula Lenska. On his @georgegalloway Twitter account he describes himself as the "Respect MP for Bradford West, pro-Palestine, anti-war, pro-equality, anti-Islamophobia. This is the genuine George Galloway! Mr Galloway's early day motion on Twitter has one supporter, the little-known Labour backbencher Alan Meale. Yesterday the think-tank Demos urged police forces to appoint a senior officer to take charge of gathering intelligence via Facebook and Twitter.