Gorgeous George
Love him or hate him, George Galloway is a man who will not be ignored.
Last week the US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs accused George of receiving oil export credits from Saddam Hussein totalling about 20 million barrels. The committee did this without bothering to question George in person, so he packed his bags on Sunday night and flew to Washington. Many in the senate committee will be wishing he hadn't.
If you accuse George of something you'd better be sure of your facts. George speaks his mind. It's a scarce enough quality in UK politicians but seems much more so in the US Senate. And George did not disappoint. The accusations were thrown back at the Senate with interest. George does not deny meeting Saddam but points out that he has met the former dictator twice - the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld. I quote...
"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps... I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war"
Even Fox News can't ignore this story.
The firebrand British member of Parliament who has been accused of accepting oil vouchers as part of the Oil-for-Food scandal told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday he did nothing wrong and accused the United States of diverting attention from their own crimes in Iraq by implicating him.
That's the way to do it!! I certainly admire his indefatigability. Read the stories. I'm still laughing too much.
Last week the US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs accused George of receiving oil export credits from Saddam Hussein totalling about 20 million barrels. The committee did this without bothering to question George in person, so he packed his bags on Sunday night and flew to Washington. Many in the senate committee will be wishing he hadn't.
If you accuse George of something you'd better be sure of your facts. George speaks his mind. It's a scarce enough quality in UK politicians but seems much more so in the US Senate. And George did not disappoint. The accusations were thrown back at the Senate with interest. George does not deny meeting Saddam but points out that he has met the former dictator twice - the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld. I quote...
"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps... I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war"
Even Fox News can't ignore this story.
The firebrand British member of Parliament who has been accused of accepting oil vouchers as part of the Oil-for-Food scandal told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday he did nothing wrong and accused the United States of diverting attention from their own crimes in Iraq by implicating him.
That's the way to do it!! I certainly admire his indefatigability. Read the stories. I'm still laughing too much.
UPDATE
CNN have published a full transcript of today's senate hearing. Pop over and have a read.
And here's The Guardian's article proving Galloway's point that the US government was one of the biggest UN sanction breakers accounting for about 52% of all the oil illegally sold by Hussein's regime. Do you think the senate committee will investigate this? Do you think they'll investigate the late Pope JP II or Nelson Mandela whose names were also on the list used to 'prove' Galloway guilty. Or do you think it will be quietly fogotten about?
Here's a reminder of little Donny R meeting Saddam when he was selling him weapons on behalf of 'Mad Dog' Reagan.
Hypocrite.
posted by phylos @ 17:28
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