Calling Galloway's Bluff

Slate ^ | 10/25/2005 | Christopher Hitchens

[saveliberty]

Just before my last exchange with George Galloway, which occurred on the set of Bill Maher's show in Los Angeles in mid-September, I was approached by a representative of the program and asked if I planned to repeat my challenge to Galloway on air. That challenge—would he sign an affidavit saying that he had never discussed Oil-for-Food monies with Tariq Aziz?—I had already made on a public stage in New York. Maher's producers had been asked, obviously by a nervous Galloway, to find out whether I had brought such an affidavit along with me. I replied that this was not necessary, since his public denial to me was on the record and had been broadcast, and since it further confirmed the apparent perjury that he had committed in front of the U.S. Senate on May 17, 2005. I added that I wanted no further contact with Galloway until I could have the opportunity of reviewing his prison diaries.

[Senator Goldwater]

"He personally offered a $2 million bribe to Rolf Ekeus, then the head of the U.N. weapons inspectors"

Yet the Left would have you believe that there were no such weapon regimes in Iraq.

So why the bribes?

[Senator Goldwater]

"A member of the British Parliament was in receipt of serious money originating from a homicidal dictatorship.

This is something more than mere "corruption." It is the cynical theft of food and medicine from the desperate to pay for the palaces of a psychopath"

Hitchens knows how to tear Galloway a new one.

[saveliberty]

Because money is bad. So by taking the money, Galloway was promoting good in Iraq