Galloway vs. US Senate
British MP Galloway testified in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, who have accused him of corruption in the Oil for Food scandal. Due to his combative nature during his appearance, he is now being hailed as a hero in some circles:
I have had two meetings with Saddam Hussein, once in 1994 and once in August of 2002. By no stretch of the English language can that be described as "many meetings" with Saddam Hussein. As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country—a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defence made of his.


1 Comments:
Wow. To wit: "In one hour, George Galloway has shown how to do what a succession of British ministers ... have conspicuously failed to do: to stand up to American bullying and mendacity..."
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