Galloway denies he was on Saddam's payroll after 'discovery' of secret memo

The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 04/22/03 | Chris Bunting

[Beck_isright]

You don't keep a barrel of oil in your back yard in case their is another Arab embargo??? Wow, I do. At least two or three. It must be the Scottish in me that makes me do that. </sarcasm off

[beckett]

I just picked it up. Looks like I have an extra close quote stuck on it.

[Pokey78]

You had an " at the end that shouldn't be there.

[beckett]

Thx pokey...yeah I screwed up.

[Steve Eisenberg]

his wife is Arab

Links on FR are not working at the moment, so I can't check out the source here. However, I am pretty sure it is his son-in-law, not his wife. In any event, there are far, far better things to beat Galloway over the head with than to go after his family.

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability"

--George Galloway, speaking to Saddam Hussein, 1994

[JoeSchem]

Ah yes, the old vast right wing conspiracy theory rises again.

To believe in the vast right wing conspiracy, all you have to do is believe that people of the character of Bill Clinton and Saddam Hussein are telling the truth.

[beckett]

Galloway recently said that the saddest event of his life so far has been the fall of the Soviet Union. In that same interview he called John Lennon's Imagine the "socialist anthem."

Iraqi Documents Detail £375,000 Payments to British MP George Galloway

Altogether now:

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
Nothing to kill or die for
A brotherhood of man

[Ken H]

Lots of folks will be going down before this is all over.

I'd bet my paycheck the US has a whole lot of information about such dealings with Saddam in their hands that they have not released yet.

[the_doc]

"I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one."

Sounds like this guy is just practicing his evasive testimony for trial.

MadIvan: Are you UK folks familiar with what Texans call a "necktie party"?

[hoot2]

"accusations last night that the Labour MP George Galloway was on the payroll of Saddam Hussein"

hey, he only "laundered" the $$$ for the "hitlery for prez committee..."

[MattAMiller]

Either he did it or somebody's trying to frame him. Big, big stuff either way.

[hoot2]

"How Clintonesque is that statement? "

klintoon wasn't disbarred in "limeytown"....he could represent his "commrade"...
it just depends on what your "definition of scum of the earth.....IS"

[hoot2]

"Ah yes, the old vast right wing conspiracy theory rises again. "

mark furman just keeps over doing the evidence...

[kcvl]

Hans Blix...$$$$$$, Kofi Annan...$$$$$$ etc.

[patton]

Um, but I do keep a supply of oil in the garden.

And I am scots.

[delightfully dingy]

I have. We buy it in 55 Gal barrels.

[Beck_isright]

LOL, God Bless ya! I do keep a 5 gallon barrel, but it's for my boat, LOL.

[TUX]

It's amazing what a little money spred around can do. Always follow the money trail.

[Choose Ye This Day]

"From the way they have been described to me, I can state that [the documents] bear all the hallmarks of having been either forged or doctored and are designed to discredit those who stood against the war."


Um, yeah, right.

Man, there are people in Paris, Moscow and Bonn right now, urinating in their skivvies, worried about what other pieces of paper may come to light in Baghdad soon. Should be fun!

[tictoc]

I'm not saying this is a setup. But I would rather be cautious now than have egg on my face later. Vermin like Galloway are perfectly capable of acting as they do even without a payoff. Even before the implication of Galloway in Saddam payola, Nelson Ascher, at Europundits (scroll down to Friday, April 18) was skeptical when the Telegraph first started publishing secret Iraqi files:

Let’s stop playing childish games. Come on: I want hard proof that the Axis of Weasels had been helping Saddam to come out in the open as much as anybody else. But we have a saying in Brazil that could be translated like this: When a beggar is given too much money, the suspicions of the saint are aroused. (Believe me, it sounds much better in Portuguese).

The Telegraph’s scoop this Sunday (Revealed: Russia spied on Blair for Saddam) about the cooperation between the Russian secret services and Iraq, with documental proof that the Russians had been spying on Blair and sharing information with Saddam, is to good to be true.

Sorry, but doesn’t it sound rather unbelievable that, even before the shooting has stopped, a reporter goes to the headquarters of the Iraqi intelligence service in Baghdad, I mean, to a building that has been heavily bombed, that’s partly destroyed and burnt out, that had millions and millions of files of all kinds, imagine, tons and tons of paper, that has already been looted, that he then walks around for half an hour and, look!, finds exactly the information that will make it to the front page just in time for the Sunday edition?

It’s obvious that this doesn’t make sense.

(For the rest of Ascher's comments, click on the link above.)