So I wonder how he explains the documents?
Interesting to hear a lefty nutjob extolling the virtues of justice when it's personal. Where was his outcry when Saddam was killing and raping children?
Arrogant jerk...
While American lawyers definitely ain't on the top of anybody's popularity list, they're still our lawyers.
A couple of years ago while I was on some English site, this bird's vacation home in Spain--on an MPs salary--was all they talked about.
The same could be true of me. I hold stock in Exxon, which means that I may never have seen an actual barrel of oil, or owned a barrel of oil, or bought a barrel of oil, or sold a barrel of oil, nor has the Exxon Corporation bought a barrel of oil on my personal behalf.
But the Exxon Corporation, as a holding company, does own operating companies that see, own, buy and sell barrels of oil.
And they deposit the cash from those transactions up to their finance company which in turn extends an internal line of credit or other internal financing arrangement to the holding company which issues stock that my broker buys for me.
So, like George Galloway, I am at least three removes from the actual transactions in the real goods - but I still profit when those transactions are profitable.
Mr. Galloway, instead of buying shares in a publicly traded company in exchange for cash, bought shares in the illegal criminal enterprise known as Saddam Inc. in exchange for influence influence.
And so his semantic games will not fly.
All the media I have consulted have reported Galloway's comments but none have reported any kind of questioning or response from the congressional committee. Did this hack speak to an empty room? Or did the congressmen just sit back and let him spew his venom?
Someone should introduce this jerk to Jack Bauer.
God, it is awful to have to admit it but the slimeball won hands down. I had been looking forward to this for days, anticipating the vast reams of damning evidence exposing this charlatan for the fraud that he is but in the event the Committee never laid a glove on him, they were pathetic. The jerk of a chairman was billed as the next greatest thing since Joe McCarthy but he was as limp wristed as Liberace in San Francisco bath house.
Look, Galloway sums up for me everything that I loathe and find detestable in the British hard left but the fact remains his perormance was masterful, the so called evidence wasn't worth the paper it was written on. All we got was a live, prime time broadcast on CNN and the BBC allowing this windbag to spout all the shi-ite that he's been blowing off to quarter filled public meetings for the best part of two decades except that here he had a worldwide audience - I'm truly disgusted, if this is the best this Committe can come up with they should pack up now.
What a dorky defense. A good lawyer would tear him to shreds.
I want to know how the Clinton administration took care of any problems for the U.N. that could have prevented this from happening or exposed it much sooner. You can bet that a rule or procedure somewhere was modified that made it all possible.
George Galloway is the new "Lord Haw-Haw" propaganda broadcaster.