From the Beeb:

“I hope this will put an end to some of the violence.”
But MP George Galloway, kicked out of the Labour party in October after a television interview in which he fiercely condemned military action in Iraq, was sceptical that it would change any critics’ mind.
Speaking from Egypt, he told BBC News 24: “It might be seized upon by the prime minister as something to laugh about, but I very much doubt if it will be the last laugh, because the truth is the country was taken into the war on the basis of a lie.
“This will not stop the Iraqi resistance… if anything, it may set the resistance free, if you like, from the cloud of Saddam Hussein, and transform it into a purely national resistance movement without the charge that it’s being controlled from behind by the deposed president.”