No surprise. For those needing a reason why:

http://www.democraticund...address=104×3688434

Peace.

http://www.missionnotaccomplished.us

Nice reporting, Brad - Bradville is the first place I visit every time I log on, and you continue to prove my inclination right. And I love your understated style. Please keep up the outstanding work! If I could send you some money from the CheeZee Repuglick I would. Hell, I'll find a way. You the man! You and Conyers! Conyers/Friedman 08!

I continue to misunderestimate the stunning incompetence of these guys. Do they really think that by deleting Galloway's testimony they can squelch it? That horse left the barn last Tuesday.

Of course, they were fools to have invited him to testify in the first place. And fools again for not being even marginally prepared for the scorching testimony they recieved. What did they think Galloway was going to say?

I don't know whether Galloway is innocent or not. But he is obviously more intelligent, and immeasurably more believable than his accusers!

Galloway? There is no one named Galloway that anyone needs to be concerned about --- and there was certainly no one named Galloway who testified before the George W Bush Memorial Senate.

And --- it is Double Plus UnGood for anyone to comment on or link to anything about someone who is being airbrushed out of existence . . .

showing Galloway's testimony on C-Span2 NOW!

Apparently we aren't supposed to know that some people are alleging the US was responsible for the bulk of the scandal. If the allegations were false, why wouldn't they let the accusations come out into the open, then disprove them?

The purpose of this UNOFP probe that the Senate is doing is to besmirch the names of people who opposed the Iraqi sanctions & war. Period. Galloway pointed out that the committee had a list of 270 names of people who were involved in the scandal, and they somehow shaved it down to a handful. Stances on Iraqi sanctions & war are, apparently, 2 of the criteria this committee is using to select who they go after. Yes, the first 2 people they hammered (Zhirinovsky and Pasqua) did actually participate in the scandal. We showed proof of that. But not Galloway. Galloway, in fact, cited specific instances where the "evidence" against him had already been proven to be forged.

Remember back when Wolfowitz claimed the Iraqi war would pay for itself? Remember who got all of the rebuilding contracts in Iraq? The idea was that only those who were on the side of "freedom" and "democracy" would be allowed to take part in whatever profit there was to be had from this war. Well, now that it's blindingly obvious that the Iraqi war has not and will not "pay for itself", members of the "coalition of the willing" are finding that this is a huge net loss in money. Wolfowitz has been sent to head the World Bank to take care of that problem, but in the meantime, we're apparently still pissed off at the people who didn't support us. And seeing that leaving them out of the rebuilding contracts in Iraq isn't going to spite them at all, we're apparently looking for another way to do so: UNOFP scandal investigations. or maybe we should call this what it really is: "Operation Smite Those Who Oppose Us".

As I remember, at the end of the questioning, Galloway actually left materials to be entered into the record, which Coleman or Levin agreed to do.

Brad,

Excellent Job!!! Galloway was BRILLIANT in his testimony. You've busted them AGAIN!!! Keep up the great job that you're doing.

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Oh, good grief. This must be what Coleman meant when he said Galloway was "irrelevant."

From the Unabashed Dictionary:

irrelevant, adj....causing extreme discomfort to the power structure...irksome...tending to ruffle...not consistent with established wisdom...unpleasant to the ears...of or pertaining to a damaging source

The whole George W. Bush administration are a bunch of posturing lyers, truth distortors, or blatently hide the truth if it differs from their "agenda" or point of view they are pushing. Yes, scientific studies and theory gets in the Bushit way. Bush and Cheney are the leaders of wealthy benefactors in a war they created even if they cannot be credited yet with actual 911 involvement. It is a proven fact that Condolezza Rice head of the security department at that time knew of the a planned attack). She was rewarded with her efforts of lying about Iraqi ties to Alkaida and WMD by being Bush's new Secretary of State. Murderers of a new blind America. Strip Americans of their voice by stealing the last 2 Presidential Elections and then use your Congressional majority to centralize your power out of the hands of the people. Lucky i ain't in Michigan this weekend.

Previously blogged these remarks at the blog about Bush giving a speech this weekend at the Grand Rapids College graduation cerimony. Looks like Galloway's testimony doesn't fit the way the subcommittee want to write the "Food For Oil" story so the "Hide The Evidence And Pretend It Never Existed" method regularly used by the BUSHIT ADMINISTRATION has been employed. It doesn't matter if they're called Democrat or Republican, the majority in Congress are Fcking ROBOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Denial (of the internet kind) is what they are into by hiding or not publishing the document.

Propaganda and plunder is the admin's trade and congress is now caving in to the neocon fascism.

If you think about it, this shows that they are afraid that the public will believe Galloway.

As the popularity of the president and his neocon cohorts goes down more and more, people are more inclined to believe Galloway told it straight.

The neocons are probably afraid the people will see them for what they really are - liars.

majority in Congress are Fcking ROBOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

No, I believe if they are repubs, they are into animals not robots.

Out, out Damned Spot....

but no matter how much they rub, it's still gonna be there

"Internets" are dangerous things ,we'll have to see if we can make'em safe for normal Amerikans.Where's that "anykey " gone?

Hi, Dredd #11 - People DO see them as liars, thieves and murderers. The question is, what are the people going to DO about it???? Do the law books cover the subject of when authority and judicial systems are corrupt, then what are decent citizens to do??? Can they make citizens' arrests??? Form their own courts and juries???

OT but VIP

ANNIHILATION FOR ALL

Check out the site again...it now states, "Panel 2, George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain, Mr Galloway did not submit a statement"

Now that Galloway has exposed them for the liars and thieves they are they are gonna do all they can to cover their asses. We need to be contacting Levin and our state senators to make sure that testimony stays part of the congressional record. It is the most accurate government testimony in decades!

More interesting OT:

NO VOLUNTEERS, OKAY WE’LL KIDNAP “RECRUITS”

Well, one good thing happened. A co-worker told me that some gut testimony by a guy named Galloway was buried on A11 of WaPo. A11 he said!! I was able to say, oh yeah, some blogs had that out front page, not long after it actually happened. Brad Blog, I said. Brad Blog, he repeated.

I guess the fascists couldn't find any dirt on Galloway.

Plan B: Hide the story.
Hide a story that was nationally televised. That and some duct tape oughta do it.

Peggy #15 You must be correct.

A conservative and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan Administration is calling for the Impeachment of Bush as the only way to get America's reputation back in the eyes of the world! (link here).

Does it matter? The mainstream media have totally ignored the story....and have made no mention of Galloway once the testimony was given.

This joins an array of vital stories that continue to evade coverage - the smoking gun 'memo,' the ICRC report that corroborates the Newsweek account of Koran desecration, - on and on.

Here's a plea for all of us to start doing something:
WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

Bradblog was one of my first experiences in blogging about 6 months ago. I started because of the Cobb County fiasco about opposing evolution.
I've been on the net over 14 years.
Gosh dam!! BLOGGERS RULE! On the sights I go to, if you don't verify a new idea,you get shot down.
The internet is the future of information/media. Thanks to Brad Friedman and others.!

The link on the Senate sub-committee's website to the video of the hearing is mysteriously not working. Must be those darn webmasters messing up again!

Maybe it would help the senate sub-committee on investigations and their webmaster if we all mailed the links where Mr. Galloway's testimony is available to them. Perhaps they just don't know where to find a copy.

It can not be legal for an investigating committee to remove someone's testimony, can it? I mean, aren't they then guilty of fraud? The web page is as official and as legally binding as any written report. Could Coleman be sued for that? Surely there must be legal limits as to what a committee like his can do. Lawyers any comments?

As an outspoken critic of the Iraq war and as a charismatic speaker, George Galloway poses great political danger to Tony Blair. Obviously there has been some kind of agreement over the Atlantic to discredit Galloway this way. The only reason the Labour won in Britain again is not because of Tony Blair but because the alternative was even worse. But the voters of the Labour party would like to see Tony Blair go, there is no question about that. I don't have the latest figures, but from the start something like 80% of the Brits were against the war.

As I live over the pond in Wales I must say I was amazed at seeing this. We're quite used to seeing this adversarial style in our Parliament at question time and in committees. Clearly this committee was not prepared for this. No bowing or scraping for George, straight for the jugular and quite frankly Sen. Coleman and his cohorts didn't have a clue. I never supported the war and Blair and Bush are about as much use as a sun roof on a submarine. Then to cap it all to remove his (Galloway's) testament from the record smacks of Room 101. We have a saying over here: American and British democracy is the best political system money can buy.

This is no surprise to me, just par for the course. I regularly watch Prime Minister's question time where this type of dialog is nothing new. Say what you mean, and mean what you say. It's simple. That so many people are fawning over Galloway (including me), shows just how far we have gotten away from anything that resembles real representation, and expression of conviction.

They cannot pssibly allow Galloway's testimony to remain visible because it shows with brutal clarity just how morally corrupt, and spinless our elected officials are and that includes the Democrats with a few obvious exceptions, and we all know who they are. Here is another blistering attack, though not quite as eloquent as Galloway's, by Stan Goff, contributer to Counterpunc, on the Democrats and their lack of spinal fortitude. BTW, Levin's miserable performance at Galloway's testimony, shows exactly how Democrats are more like their fascist Republican brothers and sisters than what should be a real opposition party.

Peace

Lots of typos. Must Drink More Coffee.

I saw the Galloway testimony on C-Span2 at 5pm Central Time yesterday. We should all thank them for replaying it.
Please be aware and tell everyone about the following FCC action: on July 1, 2005 the FCC "broadcast flag" for digital video streams and HDTV recorders will make its debut. The FCC has mandated that every TV tuner, HDTV recorder, and digital TV stream must be broadcast flag enabled as of July 1, 2005.
Broadcast-flag technology uses a signal embedded in the digital TV stream that tells the recorder what it CAN AND CANNOT do with the stream once it's been captured!
The flag could dictate that the content CANNOT be copied to another device or archived to DVD!
In less than 6 weeks, most people will lose the ability to record such news as Galloway's testimony and make a copy of it. How will we prove what was said if we lose the ability to make copies?
Go to EFF.org for a list of currently available hardware that is not broadcast-flag enabled.
This info comes from the great people at MaximumPC magazine. The story can be found on page 16 of the June 2005 issue.
I am one of the 6 or 7. And I sent a snail mail to prove it.

Down once more into the depths of the darkess hell. Where endless night rules with blindness and cruelty. They don't care how far they have to go to see their reality held in place. What they don't understand is we already see the light of day and we will fight against swallowing their neo-con bullsh*t. There are people like Brad standing guard at the watch tower. We will discover the depths of their hell and may they roast in them forever. May they all get what they deserve.

After a search around - I did find a video feed of Galloway's testimony. Here on BBC. Let them try and block it from British websites. No matter how many times they try to hide the truth, someone will find it. Peace.

Can anyone keep track of the lies? First we went after weapons of mass destruction, now we’re trying to create democracy when the Republicans have squashed it here at home. Everyday it’s a new pack of lies.
Hearing Bush talk about “democracy” is like hearing Adolf Hitler talk of compassionate treatment of the Jews. For him to talk of “freedom” is like hearing Paris Hilton discussing Albert Einstein’s Theories of relativity.
What a wonderful fictional world we live in, where many people believe the universe came from a magician’s show and a brain-dead ex-frat-boy can pretend to lead the world’s only superpower.

To paraphrase Stalin, "No testimony, no problem."

GALLOWAY LIED!

The British charity investigation organization filed its response to his statements about his "charity".

They stated that they were UNABLE to complete their investigation as he claimed because Galloways business partner absconded with the RECORDS!

GALLOWAY DODGED ANSWERS!

The British press was laughing at America's response to Galloways bluster, intimidation, and dodging of answers. They said American's are not use to British style politics where mostly members of parties exchange bluster, rhetoric, and intimidation for accomplishments.

GALLOWAY HAS A FAKE SCOTTISH ACCENT!

Galloway is perfectly capable of speaking without his "Scottish" accent but uses for its effect when he knows the cameras are rolling. This manner of speaking "endears" him to the far left wing labor fanatics and socialists that re-elect him in his region.

GALLOWAY SPOKE WELL OF STALIN and SADDAM!

Go read Wikipedia for more startling information on what Galloway has said and done in the past, including stating the old Soviet Union was a great asset to the world, saluting Saddam in 1994 and wishing him success and a long life!

AP #37 That hot air has already been debalooned (link here).

Galloway was on CSPAN2 this afternoon - statement and Q&A with Coleman and Levin. I don't know if they'll repeat it.

re #38

Thanks for that Dredd. You're always on top of the legalese. Makes me wonder if you ever went to law school. Lots of intelligent, articulate people here and Dredd is always out front in that regard.

Dredd your line: "That being said, Galloway won a libel suit against those who slandered his name with this oil for food fallacy. It was proven to be a fallacy in the common law courts. And take note that since Galloway commenced the lawsuit, the burden of proof was his to bear."

Good GRIEF! All that was "proven" was that the newspapers fell victim to a so called forged document in their reporting.

The lawsuit NEVER proved that Galloway never took bribes, it simply said that the documents the newspapers used had been forged and as a result they should have either never printed their reports or continued digging until the found more reliable documents!

RIGHT NOW as we post the British charity investigation team is obtaining copies of all documents from Senator Colemans team. They are going to re-open his case since Galloways partner ABSCONDED with the books and records and made their investigation IMPOSSIBLE.

I am surprised and ASTONISHED that the left in America is standing up for people that stole hundreds of millions of money that was meant for the children of Iraq. Iraq's own former leaders have said openly that this was not a "hidden program" but a relatively open program meant to reward those that were supporting Saddam!

I truly do not understand what the left in America thinks they have to gain by standing in the way of convicting criminals that helped Saddam bust sanctions that resulted in 17 UN resolutions broken that resulted in our throwing out the terms of his surrender and getting rid of him.

To align yourself with those that Saddam was bribing puts yourself at equal with those that Hitler paid off so he could violate the terms of the Paris surrender accord of WW1.

Unbelievalbe. Just simply unbelievable. No doubt you all would have supported Stalin's murder of millions also.

LOL.. well, just watched the whole thing.. I must say, as someone not on trial and not before a subcomittee, I would say "yeah, I'd be troubled getting money that came from illegal activities".. and Levin tried to be "indignant" about it.. but guess what? based on MOST reports of thousands of companies, ALL politicians in this country that take money from corperations are at SERIOUS risk of having money gotten from illegal manners.. to pretend that politicians "give the money back" is arrogant and ignorant. If I was on trial and had a bunch of hacks trying to back me into a corner with language that was not fair so they could toss it back into my face later, I'd give them a hard time as well.

That said, the money from could well ALL have come from legitimate business and the profits from the "oil" might not have been part.. To say that you should not take -any- money from -any- corperation(s) that have -ever- done anything illegal means that NO politician should ever take money from compaines given the vast perponderance of "large corperations" that are fined EVERY YEAR for violations of various laws.

Other than at the very end when he was being asked very "unfairly worded and presented questions" in an attempt to set him up for a fall, he did NOT dodge questions, he answered them all. With the exception of the "do you think this document is fake", which he rightly asked to be able to go over forensicaly (sp). I thought he did a bang up job..

http://www.weeklystandar...cle=5641&R=C55925A6A

In several cases, the documents suggested that a man named Fawaz Zureikat, a Jordanian tycoon, had been intimately involved in these transactions. Galloway's name also appears in parentheses on the Zureikat papers--perhaps as an aide-memoire to those processing them--but you must keep in mind that the material does not show transfers directly to Galloway himself; only to Zureikat, his patron and partner and friend. In an analogous way, one cannot accuse Scott Ritter, who made a ferocious documentary attacking the Iraq war, of being in Iraqi pay. One may be aware, though, that the Iraqi-American businessman who financed that film, Shakir al-Khafaji, has since shown up in the captured Oil-for-Food correspondence.

I urge you all to read the entire article.

These aren't lies:

"I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies."

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning."

"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."

It's The Truth!

Oh.. and American Patriot.. the POINT is, Galloway did NOT engage in -any- illegal activity. His charity got money from someone that did.. and now they are showing it and some how saying Galloway should be prosecuted?

Get a grip, would ya? Sure, I agree.. prosecute -everyone- that was involved in getting money -directly- from the food-for-oil program.. including the AMERICAN POLITICIANS that take money from -any- company that directly profited from the scandal.. Oh, wait.. we'll not do that because we'd lost lots of Republicans, right? HELLO? Money from OIL COMPANIES? that MOSTLY goes to Republicans? and those few businessmen in America that got filthy rich and donate to various Republicans?

I submit that American Patrioit is not really a patriot at all.. Someone that wants an innocent person (from all that we've seen so far) to be prosecuted for crimes others have committed? Not very American, if you ask me.. And, are you also going to call for the Impeachment of the Administration? It's a WELL KNOWN FACT that they led us to an illegal war based on LIES.. Lying to Congress is a crime, and Shrubman and his flunkies KNEW going in they were lying, the facts are there to support it.. but his RePugNecon asswipe buddies won't prosecute.. hmm.. Yeah, patriotic there.. I bet you would have waved your Swastica (sp) as Hitler walked the streets, eh? Like your patriotism..

Let me clarify my #44 above.. second paragraph.. I personally do NOT think we should be prosecuting people who received political contrabutions from criminals. You can't reasonably expect people to know all the details of where all the money comes from.. and, as was pointed out, oil was a SMALL part of what Fawaz Zureikat was doing as a business (even if it's a major part, Galloway can't be held responsible unless he actually gave money to Fawaz to invest in the illegal oil)..

Also, several documents have been PROVED to be faked, and most of those (if I recall what wikipedia showed) were by having FAKE entries of Galloway's name, in parenthesis.. Perhaps this other document is JUST ANOTHER FAKE? We won't know until the ORIGINAL is checked.. Not that our government would care to check the originals to make sure they weren't duped.. we like using fake memos/contracts to prove a point, right?

Supersoling #39 Yes I have a JD but no I am not a lawyer. And thank you for the kind words.

AP #40 Your typical neocon rant is simply more sore looser and sour grapes diatribe.

When Galloway sued the irresponsible MSM in britain's common law courts I suppose you think they rolled over and played dead? Laughable.

You need to get a grip and realize that they fought tooth and nail and ended up loosing ungracefully. Leaving only non-thinking supporters like you to parrot baseless and tasteless lies in abject intellectual emptiness.

If they repeated what you have said again guess what would happen to them AGAIN?

The MSM did not loose the case because they did not desperately try by pulling out all stops. They simply lost because they could not win.

And lest you become too self deceived, if the partner you bring up was for real, the MSM could have named the "partner" or the said partner would have to have been a party plaintiff.

And if there was a true partner as you have alleged that partner would have to be by law a party to the lawsuit. Whether primary party plaintiff or third party defendant. Its the indispensable party doctrine.

Your shrill incantations of what you desperately hope to be reality notwithstanding.

And your resort to calling anything and everything you disagree with "Hitler" and "Stalin" will render you over and over, like the other neocons doing it in the public eye, eligible for apology duty.

But since you have nothing to loose, already having lost credibility, I am not holding my breath for an apology.

Orwell lives. :angry:

Hey Guys-

Here's an idea of a protest, I don't even know if it is legal.

Get a minumum of 100, but as many as would volunteer, and march and protest in washington wearing Nazi uniforms with signs saying,

"Is this what you want?"

White people, Black people, Hispanics, jews, muslims, rednecks, etc... all those that beleive in democracy for all....in Nazi uniforms saluting the white house and asking, is this what you want....

but I think we already know the answer...does the rest of America....

get the message freaks, we are already a facist country ruled by a militaristic egomaniac, headed down a similar road that led to hitlers rule of germany in the 30's. Let draw the parrell.

Now how do we end it, with strong messages...

How about a bumper sticker with the white W (BuSH) and a swastica over it. It made me feel so uneasy that I havent done it yet...is it overboard?

There are two diaries at Dkos here and here that say that Bush's family has benefitted directly from the oil for food program. This is the smokescreen that Galloway talks about.

Whoooooops, the second link is to a different diary. Let's try this.

Thats better. BTW, one of the relatives implicated here is a democratic aide, or at least former. Same shit different letter.

I looked at the web-site to see if there was a contact number regarding the Galloway "omission". Does anyone know who to contact in order to make an opinion known?

Perhaps we need one of these

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, --- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security --- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. --- The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
Declaration of Independance

Another link for the Galloway lovefest.

I would like to again refer readers of this blog to a recent article posted on the Online Journal by Wayne Madsen which has considerabbly more background on the Galloway allegations than you can find in our pathetic MSM:

http://www.onlinejournal...Madsen/052105madsen.html

titled: "Galloway tongue-lashes Coleman; committee documents show Bush political friends and family paid Oil-for-Food kickbacks to Saddam Hussein"

The concluding paragraph is a barn-burner, especialy if Madsen's allegations can be proven:

George Galloway was correct when he called the Coleman Committee the "mother of all smoke screens." Major political contributors and friends of Bush not only paid illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein but personally profited from sanctions-busting with Iraq. Those involved in the scheme included individuals who date back to the Reagan/Bush 41 "cluster bombs and biological and chemical weapons-for-oil" scandal of the 1980s. Galloway is correct when he stated that there is enough evidence on Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair and their neocon advisers to park them in prison cells in The Hague for an awfully long time.

http://www.sundayherald.com/49885

5/21/05

Galloway GOING TO JAIL!

In 2003 the Daily Telegraph published allegations that Galloway had received money from Saddam – allegations the newspaper said had been made in an Iraqi intelligence officer’s report, found, they claimed, in the wreck of the Iraqi foreign ministry and which were the subject of a successful legal action by Galloway. Afterwards, the MP told the BBC that he did not know if his friend Zureikat had been involved in oil deals. In Washington last week, Galloway updated this saying Zureikat “may have signed an oil contract”, though he said it had nothing to do with him.

If his association and friendship with Zureikat is embarrassing, and puts into question Galloway’s judgement, it is no less potentially damaging than his ties to Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz.

Aziz was also close to Zureikat. The two are said to have shared a prison cell in Syria in the early part of their lives. Galloway spent Christmas of 1999 or 2000 (he once said he couldn’t remember which) with both men.

Aziz is now being held by the US authorities in Baghdad. Last month Galloway called him a “political prisoner”, claiming he was “an eminent diplomatic and intellectual person” who was being illegally held in an Iraqi prison.

Galloway signed an international petition calling for his release, a petition signed by almost 200 prominent names, among them Tony Benn, the MP Bob Wareing, Lord Nazir Ahmed, Lord Rea, and Hans von Sponeck, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator of the oil-for-food programme in Iraq from 1998 to 2000.

Former Labour MP Oona King, who Galloway defeated in Bethnal Green, said: “This tells you everything you need to know about George Galloway. Tariq Aziz was a henchman of Saddam Hussein, implicated in terrible crimes, including the gassing of the Kurds at Halabja. But Galloway thinks he is an intellectual.”

The last line says it all:

"Tariq Aziz was a henchman of Saddam Hussein, implicated in terrible crimes, including the gassing of the Kurds at Halabja. But Galloway thinks he is an intellectual.”

AND YOU PEOPLE ARE SUPPORTING THIS TRASH!

UNBELIEVABLE.

AP#57, where are the weapons of mass destruction? Where are the Iraqi ties with Al Qaida? Why do you hate America so much?

http://news.independent....s/story.jsp?story=640428

Galloway ally sells US arms kit to Iraq
By Severin Carrell
22 May 2005

The Jordanian businessman at the centre of claims that George Galloway secretly bought oil from Saddam Hussein has a major contract to sell US military technology in Iraq, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

Fawaz Zureikat has been accused by a US Senate committee of orchestrating illegal oil deals with the Iraqi dictator allegedly on behalf of Mr Galloway, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, and a charity they jointly ran. Both men deny the claims.

It has now emerged that a firm run by Mr Zureikat, 51, and other members of his family, has the exclusive rights to sell highly sensitive military encryption technologies made by a US firm in Iraq.

Continued

veryworried: WMD in Iraq? Ask Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and 37 other Democrat Senators and uncountable Democrat Representatives that also said he had them.

You may recall, or not, that President Bush let Saddam break 17 UN resolutions, his 1991 cease fire and the terms of his 1991 surrender; then offered him one last chance to let the inspectors do their job in Iraq and Saddam said no. In addiition, every single day Saddam was trying to MURDER our air force pilots flying protection over Iraq.

You may recall, or not, that President Bush said at his State of the Union Speech in 2003 that we must take on Saddam BEFORE he becomes an imminent threat.

Wake up

AP#60 You are the one who needs to wake up. Your "president" lied to you in no uncertain terms that Iraq posed an immediate threat to the United States and that he had evidence of the WMD.

Well, just like Hans Blix discovered, so did the American forces discover that there were in fact no weapons of mass destruction. Your president's "evidence" just evaporated and now morons like you try to keep the lie alive.

You really do hate peace, justice and the American way to continue with such blatant disregard for the facts.

http://www.senate.gov/~g...Detail&HearingID=232

According to the formal Senate Committee web site etc etc ….. George Galloway never submitted a statement.

Panel 2 George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain. Mr. Galloway did not submit a statement”].

While Mr. Galloway spoke for over ten minutes – as advised by the panel – what he said wasn’t a statement – nor was it even opening remarks, not to mind a speech. (And well, he did hurt Norman’s feeling. I mean, come on, here he is, without a lawyer, without traditional Senate Committee obsequies. Who exactly does this nut think he is?). And besides all that - worst of all – and this I think is the most upsetting - he said stuff in his opening non statement speech/non Senate reported encounter - that was clearly always going to upset our Fox America’s idea of fairness and balance.

So to be clear – this Scottish loudmouth deserved to be gagged. After all, he (obviously) hadn’t read the Senate script: had the bad manners to give our Senators an earful (one that we the unelected should never deserve to read) and quite frankly after listening to this liberal I am so proud that we have nothing like his old world notion of respect for freedom of speech.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/...ews/politics/4553759.stm

@"American Patriot" #157...

That's a quote from someone who has a reason to be very bitter at Galloway for two reasons. (He's against labour... and he beat her in the election and took her seat!!!)

"Former Labour MP Oona King, who Galloway defeated in Bethnal Green"

'Sour grapes' and hearsay from someone who lost an election to Galloway... are not evidence of wrong doing.

Labour are bound to be trying to sully Galloways name because the truth hurts and they don't like dissent, especially not when it questions the pack of lies they've told.