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.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Well, I will try to catch up with you all later. I need to get some work done here and then take my granddaughter home for her nap.
My own thinkig is Coleman was more effective by maintaining a cool and professional demeanor as the emotional Galloway time and again sought to direct personal commentary Coleman's way.
Coleman had documentation, Galloway had umbrage.
If I didn't know what was going on, I'd side with galloway. He did a better job.
Galloway is such a nit wit .. he didn't know Levin was considered friendly
Levin raise his voice a few times at Galloway
Of course Galloway didn't attack Levin - they are political twins--you heard him reference "their good friend" David Bonior----
I think that we got a look at how flimsy Galloway's real stance is when he was asked to look at the paper and say if it was his signature and he kept asking for the "original"--sound familiar, like the arguments during Rathergate?
I wonder if Galloway has perjured himself yet.
OK. I have to do some serious packing long about Noon my time. Be safe, MM.
Umbrage trumps documentation as far as the MSM is concerned. It will be interesting to see how the major networks cover it on the TV nightly news. I bet we will see more of the diatribe than the facts. Better television.
Coleman missed a golden opportunity to nail Galloway. Galloway lied under oath about the Charity Commission's report on the Mariam appeal - "every penny in, every penny out" accounted for.
No, it wasn't and Galloway knows it - the accounts were shipped to Jordan in 2001.
Coleman must know this so one can ony assume that a "give him enough rope" strategy is being employed.
His statement about Tariq Aziz may well come back to haunt him when Aziz rats him out.
FOTFL! Good one!
Galloway won round one, hands down. He smells like a rose.
When the MSM points out galloway didn't answer questions, I'll grown wings and fly around the yard. They all be giving him kudos. They won't hammer him...they'll hammer us.
right... this is as bad as that POS Klintoon lacky that swore, under oath, that he LIED in his own DIARY... to himself!!! please
Surely its not over?
I thought it was a 20 minute recess?
Galloway won the PR, that's all that matters to the MSM.
"I think Galloway's testimony is done. They are adjourning the hearing until another day, due to pressing issues at the Senate luncheons (nuclear option discussion, I am sure).
Coleman's documents show that Galloway got OFF money. All of Galloway's blustering anad lies don't change that fact, and I am sure the documents have been forwarded to the British authorities.
It is disappointing emotionally to see Galloway ranting without much response; however, we have to think of what the ultimate outcome will be, and I think it is not going to be pleasant for Mr. Galloway."
Very good point. In the end he will pay.
You remind me of my husband, he is very level headed and would be telling me the same thing you just wrote.
I just hate how Galloway kept attacking our country without interuption, then all he did was interupt, and not answer the questions at hand. I fear our own pathetic media to play it non stop.
"This guy is just spouting the DU propaganda, did they write his speech?"
Here is what they are saying.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3672157&mesg_id=3672157
I hope not as well. Other posters said that was all for today. I have no idea who's right at this point.
Levin was upset with Galloway about his not answering Levin's question, not the substance of Galloway's diatribe. Again, I thought Galloway was not confrontational with Levin and Levin avoided any confrontational questioning of Galloway.
You have got to be kidding me--- I just now found a link that I can listen to, and they are stopping the darn hearing???
I can't be for the judicial nominees, cause c-span 2 just said that it would be tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 when that would happen....gee whiz!!!
Hopefully, c-span will show a repeat tonight! I hate Fox News today, why couldn't they stay with it---
Oh well, do you think the Senate will be interesting this afternoon?
If one is anti-war to start with, then he did a better job.
Otherwise it was plain he was blustering, evasive and offensive.
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