Posted on 05/13/2005 2:51:57 PM PDT by MplsSteve
A day after Sen. Norm Coleman implicated a member of Parliament in a U.N. oil-for-food scheme, the British legislator shot back Thursday in a cross-Atlantic exchange of words.
The legislator, George Galloway, likened Coleman to the late U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a characterization that sets the scene for a televised confrontation on Capitol Hill Tuesday, one that could further raise the Minnesota Republican's profile.
Coleman already has gained international attention for calling on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign as a result of the oil-for-food scandal.
The latest showdown began Wednesday when the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations, which Coleman chairs, released a report accusing Galloway and former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua of accepting vouchers for millions of barrels of Iraqi oil-- which could then be resold at immense profit -- in exchange for their support of Saddam Hussein's regime.
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I should have clarified my comment.
I'm a Minnesotan but I never heard any of his campaign debates in 1998 and 2002.
Thanks for the ping!
Coleman is concise and correct. Coleman is excellent.
Yes indeed. Very poor manners for a Brit.
;-)
Hmm.
Maybe Ghengis Kahn, but I'll have to ask Effin Kerry how to pronounce it.
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