I'm Anti-War and Anti-Anti-Warriors Who Dress Up Like Cats

British MP George Galloway is known as a grandstanding far-left opponent of the Iraq war. He famously testified before the U.S. Congress in order to refute charges of currying favor with the regime of Saddam Hussein in order to skim profits from the UN's oil-for-food program. He's also known as the guy who slung poo back and forth in an embarrasing debate with unquestioning war backer Christopher Hitchens in New York City last year until both men were covered from head to toe.

Now Galloway is known as the guy who joined the cast of the British version of Big Brother, dressed up like a cat and a vampire, and begged to go to the Oscars.

George Galloway's reputation sank even lower yesterday after his spokesman admitted that the Respect MP's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother had turned into a "worst-case scenario".

The maverick politician has attracted fierce criticism for choosing to go into the Big Brother house. His standing has suffered following days of controversial antics, which have seen the former Labour rebel impersonate a cat and dress up as a vampire.

As an opponent of the war I'm embarrased that folks like Galloway and Cindy Sheehan are the public faces of opposition to the war. (That's not to say there aren't other, lesser-known faces.) Still, I remember that to be associated with a just movement whose putative leaders I despise is possible, while the converse is not.