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The American senate accused him of dealing food for oil and making massive amounts of money out of Saddams regime.
Yesterday he went to American to deny these accusations and ended up slating Americas entire political system and in not so many words accusing them of being corrupt 
His opening statment to the senate were
"Galloway challenged that accusation in his opening statement.
"Now, I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you're remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice," he told Coleman."
I don't agree with Galloways political stance in this country but fair play to the guy for going and standing in front of the senate and generally giving them a punch in the gut. We need more people like him 
The whole story here
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- British Member of Parliament George Galloway was returning to the UK Wednesday confident he won a fiery showdown with U.S. senators who have accused him of profiting from the U.N.'s defunct oil-for-food program in Iraq.
Galloway said he was "absolutely" convinced he had been vindicated from allegations that he received vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein's regime.
"These people think they can smear people without them having the right to speak back and this time I got that right and I knocked them for six," he told reporters before leaving the U.S.
He said after his appearance before the Senate panel Tuesday that his accusers had little credibility "outside of Washington."
But the panel's Republican chairman, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, hit back, telling media after the session that Galloway's credibility was "very suspect."
Galloway told CNN that while Saddam's regime shared a "lot of responsibility" for deaths in Iraq, so too did the policies of Washington and London.
Galloway, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, called the Senate panel's investigation the "mother of all smokescreens" used to divert attention from the "pack of lies" that led to the 2003 invasion.
"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," he told Coleman.
"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong. And 100,000 people have paid with their lives -- 1,600 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."
He added: "Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported."
The Respect MP said he would continue to demand the withdrawal of U.S. and UK forces from Iraq following his fiery appearance in Washington.
He told CNN the U.S. and British governments were no longer believed in their statements on Iraq and that their forces could not be part of any solution there.
Galloway's appearance before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee was the first by a politician allegedly involved in the oil-for-food corruption scandal.
In a report last week, the subcommittee stated that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam granted Galloway vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil between 2000 and 2003.
Galloway strongly disputed that allegation Tuesday.
"I am not now or ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf," Galloway testified.
He also said he did not own a company that trades in oil.
"If you had any evidence of that I had ever engaged in any actual oil transaction, if you had any evidence that anybody ever gave me any money, it would be before the public and before this (committee today)," Galloway said.
Coleman, a former district attorney, told Galloway before his sworn testimony that "senior Iraqi officials have confirmed that you, in fact, received oil allocations and that the documents that identify you as an allocation recipient are valid."
Galloway challenged that accusation in his opening statement.
"Now, I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you're remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice," he told Coleman.
Rumsfeld comparison
Galloway, 51, is a leading critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his alliance with U.S. President George W. Bush in the war in Iraq. He was re-elected on an anti-war platform earlier this month.
He said he was "friendly" with former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and met him many times but that he met with Saddam only twice -- in 1994 and in 2002 -- the last time to persuade Saddam to allow U.N. weapons inspectors into the country.
He said he had met with Saddam "exactly as many times as Donald Rumsfeld has met with him."
"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and give him maps," Galloway said in his heated opening statement.
"I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second occasion, I met him to try and persuade him to allow Hans Blix and U.N. inspectors back into country."
Rumsfeld visited Baghdad to meet Saddam as President Reagan's Middle East envoy in the 1980s, when the U.S. sided with Iraq in its war with Iran. Blix was chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq before the war.
Galloway complained that the panel had determined his guilt without speaking to him.
"You have my name on lists provided to you... by the convicted bank robber and fraudster and con man Ahmed Chalabi, who many people, to their credit, in your country now realize played a decisive role in leading your country into the disaster in Iraq," Galloway told the panel.
Other allegations reportedly came from Iraqi detainees.
"In these circumstances, knowing what the world knows about how you treat prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, in Bagram Air Base [Afghanistan], in Guantanamo Bay -- including, if I may say, British citizens being held in those places -- I'm not sure how much credibility anyone would put on anything you manage to get from a prisoner in those circumstances," he said.
The Senate subcommittee has alleged in recent days that a number of European politicians were rewarded by Saddam for supporting Iraq's bid to lift economic sanctions imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Europeans implicated
In addition to Galloway, the panel also implicated former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, who allegedly was allocated 11 million barrels.
"I wrote to Mr. Coleman," Pasqua said Sunday, "and I told him that all allegations about myself are false."
Russian Deputy Parliament Speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was accused Monday of receiving 76 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil, denied the accusation.
"I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq," Zhirinovsky told a Russian TV interviewer.
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Edd
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george galloway is a cunt of the highest order.the man was so far up saddams arse it was scary!
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Ojc
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Yes, but for doing what he done yesterday to America makes he good again
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Edd
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the man is a non-entity.and the people who voted for him are morons.his constituency is like fucking baghdad
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Yes, he played the race card in Bethnal & Bow which is largely populated by ethnic minoritys.
What made me laugh was David Blunkets comment about him winning the seat
"If the people of Bow & Bethnal want him, they are welcome to him"
[Edited on 19-05-2005 by Ojc]
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tbh, everyone is a dodgy corrupt fooker in these positions - but galloway has much respect from me, for slating the americans political systems and in general. As the saying goes - he's dishing out some of their own medicine 
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anyway ojc i know what your saying about sticking it to america but i just cant stand the man.
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Reading on the the axis history forum a lot of the American members cannot believe someone can talk to there senate like that, and are shocked to hear what he says.
I really would like to spend a year in America to see how much bullsh1t the public are fed over there.
If we are not careful in this country the same could happen here.
I blame America for the dismantling of our Empire when we were at our weakest at the end of WW2.
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I blame America for the dismantling of our Empire when we were at our weakest at the end of WW2.
but remember as it pains me to say we needed the help of america to win the war.
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quote:
Originally posted by Edd_20
george galloway is a cunt of the highest order.the man was so far up saddams arse it was scary!
you like talking about stuff you know nothing about
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quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
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Originally posted by Edd_20
george galloway is a cunt of the highest order.the man was so far up saddams arse it was scary!
you like talking about stuff you know nothing about
explain
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i think he's a prize prick, but admire what he did in america. I hate america
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About Rumsfield and the meetings with Saddam
He said he had met with Saddam "exactly as many times as Donald Rumsfeld has met with him."
"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and give him maps," Galloway said in his heated opening statement.
"I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second occasion, I met him to try and persuade him to allow Hans Blix and U.N. inspectors back into country."
I love it
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quote:
Originally posted by Edd_20
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Originally posted by vibrio
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Originally posted by Edd_20
george galloway is a cunt of the highest order.the man was so far up saddams arse it was scary!
you like talking about stuff you know nothing about
explain
I'm suspect you don't acutally know George Galloway and have very little if any inside info on what he has ment to of done. it's a wild guess if you may
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Originally posted by vibrio
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Originally posted by Edd_20
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Originally posted by vibrio
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Originally posted by Edd_20
george galloway is a cunt of the highest order.the man was so far up saddams arse it was scary!
you like talking about stuff you know nothing about
explain
I'm suspect you don't acutally know George Galloway and have very little if any inside info on what he has ment to of done. it's a wild guess if you may
correct i do not know george galloway and have no inside info.but i still stand by my original statement if i may
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you may
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thank you
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i dont know a lot about him etc but he's the most confident and cocky person i've ever seen, to go into the senate, which is like a political fanfare in typical american fashion, and produce an unwaivering perfomance like that was unbelievable.
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I too dont no much about him but from what i can gather he is being accused of taking oil from saddam hussein???
Isnt that what the Yanks invaded Iraq for??
Either way The Yanks cant say f*ckall about galloways Involvement with Saddam Hussein and his regime.. What about the Americans involvement with the IRA in the past?? both helped out terrorists
The Yanks are all two faced bastards!
[Edited on 19-05-2005 by h18_oab]
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Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by Sxi04
i dont know a lot about him etc but he's the most confident and cocky person i've ever seen, to go into the senate, which is like a political fanfare in typical american fashion, and produce an unwaivering perfomance like that was unbelievable.
There is a video on the axis history forum
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yeah i seen it, i loved when the senator starts flapping and you can see him getting childish.
'i doesn't matter i know you wont answer my question anyway'
put the dummy back in your pram you jumped up american twat.
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http://www.edwardsdavid.com/BushVideos/msnbc_uk_galloway_blisters_us_on_iraq_050517-01.rm
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i've not seen a politician around the world nvr mind britain that has delivered a more emotive and hard hitting speech than that in a long time
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Jim Allister QC MEP on his election in first place to the European parliament for northern Ireland..Quality Speech
Rev Dr Ian Paisley's "Sackcloth and ashes" speech after Leeds Castle Talks
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