Posted on 05/17/2005 1:27:30 PM PDT by Brilliant
Go on give me the proof you have been trumpeting? I sure wish I had it and so does the UK's Attorney-General and your Senators.
Go on surely you will enjoy showing me precisely what the proof is that he took vouchers from Saddam?
Yes, he was asked in particular about his associate Fawaz Zuriekat. Galloway said he knew Zuriekat had much business in Iraq but Galloway claimed he didn't know anything about oil.
The Senators didn't invite Galloway.
They released some documentation last week to which Galloway's reaction was to race over here and appear.
I thought the Senators did very well, indeed, and really had no wish to keep him around too long so got some things out of him and sent him on his way.
It is clear Galloway's bluster did not trump the hard cold facts the Committee is in possession of.
He probably has evidence on some of them. There were at least 2 that went over to iraq before the war to meet with sadam.
"You can call a man a "brutal dictator" and still do nothing to remove him-- and indeed obstruct his removal. What does this make YOU?
Me?"
Not You-- what does it make Galloway? He's the one we're talking about. Are you being intentionally obtuse?
Also, you seem to profess hatred for Galloway yet in the same breath defend him. That's why I said you seem to be spoiling for a fight-- don't know why that necessitates "growing up " on my account.
Why don't you just speak plainly instead of condemning and supporting in the same breath-- as I might add your anti-hero Galloway seems to be so adept at.
You are totally missing the point of the hearing. Did you not hear Galloway tell the Senators that HE told people Zuriekat not only had oli dealings in Iraq but "more than that" that he had ten times more dodgy business other than oil.
The point of the hearing was that NO-ONE has proof that Galloway took any illegal money, not that he had dodgy friends.
George Galloway is the new "Lord Haw-Haw" propaganda broadcaster. He makes me sick.
BTW, Coleman did read that into the record. He did note Galloway has since modified his remarks, but he read the whole sickening letter.
Gotta leave.
Believe me, I wish I didn't have to.
The evidence was entered into the record. Your preferring to ignore that is telling.
Toodles
"Yes, he was asked in particular about his associate Fawaz Zuriekat."
I didn't hear them ask - do you have ANY business with him? etc.
No, I'm not, but you are.
Of course I heard Galloway. LOL
Now I really need to leave. Darn
Galloway should be condemned for what he does wrong, not for what he didn't do wrong.
The whole point of the hearing was not that he had some dodgy friends, or met Saddam or had a crappy tan, but that the senate said he had taken oil-for-food vouchers. He said he hadn't and in fact the Senators had no proof of that.
That was the whole point of the hearing - nothing more.
You would delight in giving me proof of Galloway taking oil-for-food vouchers if you had it.
They just roll up into a fetal position.
"Galloway should be condemned for what he does wrong, not for what he didn't do wrong.
The whole point of the hearing was not that he had some dodgy friends, or met Saddam or had a crappy tan, but that the senate said he had taken oil-for-food vouchers. He said he hadn't and in fact the Senators had no proof of that.
That was the whole point of the hearing - nothing more."
Okay-- in this we are in agreement and I am not hearing double messages.
And to simply restate my belief: I don't think anyone has presented evidence that will convict Galloway of anything, but that doesn't mean his support of Saddam (even while "condemning" him as a brutal dictator) is not despicable.
BTW: "condemning" while obstructing and supporting makes him a two-faced POS, just in case you were wondering.
Who said Galloway wasn't a despicable person?
BTW: "condemning" while obstructing and supporting makes him a two-faced POS, just in case you were wondering.
You can be against someone without willing to tell lies and acting like a zealot. To me that just makes you as bad as him. I will still be condemning Galloway when you have forgotten his name, just as I did when you didn't know his name.
Tue May 17 18:25:47 2005
Hissy Chrissy has Galloway on HardBoiled....
>> Your response.
>> To be accused of a lack of moral character by senator norm coleman is like being told to sit up straight by the hunchback of notre dame. This is a guy who damned me around the world without ever asking me a single question. Without ever meeting me, writing to me, telephoning me. Without even telling me that he was investigating me. And you heard his answer there.
>> He would not answer a particular question about whether you benefitted personly. He did accuse you of benefitting indirectly because a friend of yours gave some money to a charity.
>> This is the $64,000 question. His only answer, when you asked him if i had benefited personly, was to say I must have done it because other people benefited personally. That's simply guilt by association. That's tactics that senator joe mccardsy would be proud of. I'm telling you. I have never benefited by one thing -- one thin dime. I have never bought or sole anything from iraq, to iraq, we emblazoned the support of the man he was talking about as the chairman of our campaign. Throughout all of our literature, long before the war, long before norman coleman was ever held off, we were telling people that we have three been factors. One is the king of the united arab emirates. The other is the crown prince of saudi arabia. The third is this businessman who does big business in iraq. No secret about it. Now if you say to me, it's not right to take money for political campaign from kings and businessmen. You might be right about that. Though I doubt if norman coleman is in much of a position to throw stones about that. But i personally benefited not one thin dime.
>> The charity you care about benefit?
>> It's an charity. It was a political campaign to lift sanctions on iraq. And of course owe glow did that campaign benefit from the vouchers that the saudi arabian government -- rather, did the government of saddam hussein was handing out?
>> Well, i didn't ask the king of the you about I'd arab emirates where he god the money.
>> Did you ask the other man?
>> I didn'T.
>> So you don't know.
>> Let me finish this point. I openly acknowledged at the time during and since, that he was a businessman doing business with iraq in the oil for food program. Now that was a legal trade. He was making some of the money that he made from his whole business empire available to our compaign. I'm glad he did. I'm glad that the crown prince of arabia did.
>> Why is your name on these documents?
>> Anyone can write anyone's name on a piece of paper. But if I had actually lifted oil, bought it, sold it, personally enriched myself, coleman would have been able to answer your question. And he wasn't able to answer your question.
>> Because you didn't make a thin dime.
>> Not one thin dime.
>> Why is he going after you?
>> Because he is the most pro war, pro israel, neo con hawk on the hill.
>> Why is he going after you?
>> I'm coming to that. There's a lot of competition for that title. A lot of competition for that title. And he is smearing the smoke screen. Kofi annan whose dismissal he demanded. Me. President chirac. Anybody that stood against the united states policy on the war, partly for reveferk and partly because it is a useful diversion. That you and I are talking now about this instead of talking about the big disaster that people like norman coleman has taken the whole world into.
>> Iraq.
>> Iraq.
>> Thank you very much. Back with
Reading what I just heard, not 2 minutes ago confirms my suspiscions...Galloway is a slicker than snot con man.
But I'm not watching the rest of Hardball. Matthews drooling all over Queen Noor is just too icky!
Fastest fingers in FREEPERLAND!!....
No, just kidding...my video card has a TV tuner and I can capture the closed caption feed with a nifty software item in the multimedia package. ATI Radeon 9600XT...see it at ATI.com
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