Media &Politics SpinMeister on 17 May 2005 09:26 pm
Galloway Rips Senate Committee
British MP George Galloway’s Senate testimony is truly inspired. You must see this full video of Galloway dressing down Senator Norm Coleman and US Senators today (05/17/05) who have accused him of corruption.
The US Senate committee, US and British administrations will wish that this story was confined to Newsweek, since they were not looking for a sharp perspective of their recent Iraq involvement. Partial transcript from Galloway’s testimony:
“Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.
If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq’s wealth.
“Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq’s wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Haliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq’s money, but the money of the American taxpayer.
“Have a look at the oil that you didn’t even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to American military commanders to hand out around the country without even counting it or weighing it.
“Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government.”
One Response to “Galloway Rips Senate Committee”
on 22 May 2005 at 7:34 pm 1.hennis said …
I watch an insipid TV show by the editor of the Wall Street Journal, Paul Gigot, who does not say bright things ever.
The show this week aired a clip of Galloway ripping before the US Senate.
A funny-looking young Uncle Tom on the show had a little emotional outburst about how he couldn’t believe that no one in the Senate answered Galloway, “They just sat there and took it.” The old white men on the show said encouraging things about the Tom’s crybaby antics, instead of asking, “What the F could a Senator have said to answer Galloway?”