British MP Galloway takes on the U.S. Senate

Maverick MP George Galloway angrily rejected on Tuesday as "utterly preposterous" charges by the U.S. Congress that he profited from the Iraq oil-for-food programme and used the hearing as a platform to attack the U.S.-led invasion.
Far from showing the usual deference of witnesses before Congress, Galloway defiantly told a Senate committee its evidence against him was false, condemned the investigation and demanded to know why it had not questioned him first before making the allegations.

The east London Member of Parliament appeared before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is examining how Saddam used oil to reward politicians, particularly from Russia, France and Britain, under the U.N.'s oil-for-food program. As the sharp exchange unfolded, the mood in the packed room was electric with occasional snickers from the audience at Galloway's jibes at the senators.
Galloway bluntly confronted the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, and challenged the attorney to back up claims the British MP profited handsomely from the now defunct program. Some of his harshest remarks concerned Coleman's support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that ousted President Saddam Hussein.
"Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice," Galloway said.
Galloway accused Coleman of sullying his reputation and falsely asserting that he gave money to Saddam. "You call that justice?" he asked, adding later: "This is utterly preposterous."
The MP told reporters later he felt Coleman had failed in his cross-examination. "He's not much of a lyncher," he said.
Coleman, in turn, said afterward he did not think Galloway was a "credible witness" and that if he lied to the committee there would be consequences.
A maverick kicked out of the Labour Party for his fervent opposition to the Iraq war and for personal attacks on Prime Minister Tony Blair, Galloway used the opportunity to criticize the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
"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," he said.
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The U.S. Senate probably had problems talking to MP Galloway <-- someone who can speak and understand real English. mr.g
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A defiant and angry George Galloway has described claims that he profited from financial favours granted by Saddam Hussein as "The Mother of all smoke screens."
The Respect MP is in Washington for a US Senate committee hearing which claims that the former Labour MP received allocations for up to 20 million barrels of oil from 2000 to 2003.
In a lengthy opening statement, Mr Galloway insisted that the sub committee had no evidence against him.
"You have nothing on me, Senator, except my name on lists of names from Iraq, many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Iraq," he said.
He went on to say: "I am not now, nor have I 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."
Mr Galloway fervently denied authenticity of the documents and attempted to poke holes in the case the Senate has put forth. One claim in particular he took issue with, was the statement that he had "many" meetings with Saddam Hussein.
"I have had two meetings with Saddam Hussein, one 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've met with 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 to better target those guns.
"I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war and on the second of two occasions I met him to try and persuade him to allow 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."
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i'm having problems trying to understand this, maybe you should help me:
. i don't think MP Galloway did.
. wtf has that to do with the u.s. senate
. the list could go on and on and on apart from the last points that follow
. bush bush and bush, they really did or have earned money from the or such people as
the mentioned in the case of MP Galloway
mr.g