Galloway speaks to the media after arriving Monday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
Posted on 05/17/2005 4:37:17 AM PDT by Libloather
British Parliament member to face oil-for-food accusers
From Phil Hirschkorn
CNN
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Posted: 0746 GMT (1546 HKT)
Galloway speaks to the media after arriving Monday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.
(CNN) -- British Parliament member George Galloway will face his accusers when he testifies Tuesday before a U.S. Senate panel probing the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.
Galloway is due to appear before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which stated in a report last week that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein granted him vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil between 2000 and 2003.
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Galloway is scheduled to appear late Tuesday morning in Washington as the final witness in a hearing that begins at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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Galloway, 51, who met with Saddam several times in the 1990s, has been a leading critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his alliance with U.S. President George Bush in the war with Iraq. He was re-elected on an anti-war platform earlier this month.
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A new report from Democrats on the Senate subcommittee concludes the United States ended up with a majority of the oil lifted from Iraq after vendors paid illicit surcharges of 10 cents to 30 cents a barrel to Saddam.
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The Democratic report found Bayoil shipped a lot of oil allocated to a company called Italtech run by Augusto Giangrandi, a sometime Florida resident with dual Chilean-Italian citizenship.
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...I was right and you were wrong..soldiers sent to death on a pack of lies..if the world had listened to kofi annan...
This guy makes Josef Goebbels look like an amateur..
I told the world NO WMD's, Iraqi would resist invasion of their country"
"everything I said, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong."
OMG -- now Kofi and his own sorry self are the true heroes.
My feed: "Where's the money, Senator"
If you had proof I'd been paid you'd have it before the committee today.
Now saying no money to the Mariam campaign.
He is blaming us for the deaths in Iraq
saying we should have listen to Koffee Annan
Galloway praises Chirac!
MOVEON has found their new poster boy...
THE 100,000 NUMBER IS A LIE!!!
Gawd............
I took my blood pressure medicine, but it ain't helping. This jerk is making my blood boil.
His defense strategu is full attack mode..to try and discredit anything in advance..
But plenty of pounds, shillings, and pence? Rials and dinars? Just guessing.
Galloway is now spouting the European view of the war. He is making Iraq the centerpiece of the discussion rather than his exploitation of the Oil for Food Program. He is grandstanding for the Left in our country as well. They will lionize him.
I am serious here---
I think Joe Biden wrote his statement!!! Sounds like dems talking points!
This guy is unhinged!
His defense strategy is full attack mode..to try and discredit anything in advance..
Hallyburton
>>particularly with that report coming out today
Link?<<
I'm checking my history..the article said it was a Democratic report that might or might not be accepted by the committee.
This guy is just spouting the DU propaganda, did they write his speech?
How many Iraquis and Kurds did Hussein kill BEFORE we brought him down?
Coleman up
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